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Definitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Genomics
- Malaria
- Nanotechnology for health
- Tuberculosis
Below is a directory of terms used in discussions about nanotechnology for health.
B
Blue goo
See Grey goo.
Bottom-up manufacturing
See Top-down manufacturing.
Buckminsterfullerene
Also called buckyball. A nanoscale sphere made of 60 atoms arranged in a perfectly symmetrical structure. It was discovered in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley, who received a Nobel prize for their achievement in 1996. Buckyballs are named after the American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller for his famous geodesic dome. Click here for an image of a buckyball.
Buckyball
See Buckminster fullerene.
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