Europe is committing nearly twice as many dollars to nanotechnology risk research as the United States; meanwhile, consumer products engineered with materials on the nano scale are reaching the market at a rate of 3 to 4 per week, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnalogies. New analysis from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) estimates that in 2006 roughly 13 million in federal funds backed 62 projects "highly relevant to understanding nanotechnology risk."
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