Nanomedicine, Volume IIA: Biocompatibility

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Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine, Volume IIA: Biocompatibility, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2003


 

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20. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Is Diamond Biocompatible With Living Cells?” Foresight Update No. 39, 30 December 1999, pp. 7-9; http://www.imm.org/Reports/Rep012.html

21. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations,” Zyvex preprint, April 2000; http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/Ecophagy.html and http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0142.html; Robert A. Freitas Jr., “The gray goo problem,” excerpted version published on KurzweilAI.net, 20 March 2002; http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0142.html

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31. K. Eric Drexler, David Forrest, Robert A. Freitas Jr., J. Storrs Hall, Neil Jacobstein, Tom McKendree, Ralph Merkle, Christine Peterson, “Many Future Nanomachines: A Rebuttal to Whiteside’s Assertion That Mechanical Molecular Assemblers Are Not Workable and Not A Concern,” Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, 2001; http://www.imm.org/SciAmDebate2/whitesides.html

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