Nanomedicine: promises and risks

In French :

• Big média, BPI France, Nanoparticles in health : vaccines, medical imaging, pharmaceuticals, 11 March 2025
• INSERM, Nanotechnologies – A new facet of medicine, 30 August 2022
• LNE, Workshop on nanomedicines and nanomaterial-based medical devices, June 30, 2022: program and proceedings
• LNE, Nanotechnologies: on the road to the medicine of the future, LNE, May 2022
• Polytechnique Montréal, Nanomaterials for better health care, June 2021
• “Nanomaterials in Drugs and Medical Devices,” ANSM, undated, written from 2017 and obtained by AVICENN in 2020
• Mathieu Noury (University of Quebec), Chapter 6. Nanomedicine and personalized medicine: understanding the meaning and challenges of personalized care in the era of molecular technologies, International Journal of Bioethics and Science Ethics, 2019
• APMnews, ANSM recommends regulatory changes for nanomaterials in health products (report), Feb. 13, 2019
• Le Figaro, “Les promesses de l’infiniment petit” by Laurent Lévy, founder of the start-up Nanobiotix, at Le Figaro’s Big Bang Santé, 9 November 2018
• The Scientific Method, Nanomedicine: a doctor in my cell, France Culture, March 7, 2018 (“despite these promises, almost 20 years after its inception, the prophesied medical miracle has not yet happened”)
• Sciences & Avenir, Delivering, vibrating, amplifying: nanotechnology tackles cancer, January 31, 2018
• ANSM, Nanomaterials in medicines and medical devices, date ? 2017 ? (report obtained by Avicenn on August 3, 2020)
• Mathieu Noury, La médecine à l’heure des nanotechnologies, Liber Editions, March 2017
• Sciences & Vie TV, Nanomedicine: the new revolution, February 2017
• Le Monde and Universcience, La nanomédecine contre le cancer, 10 February 2017
• NanoResp, Nanomedicine: what are the new diagnostic and therapeutic features? Performance and limitations, November 30, 2016
• Les Echos, Cancer : la piste très prometteuse des nanoparticules, 4 June 2016
• The Conversation, Nano-imaging, a new tool for modern medicine, May 18, 2016
• Arte, Immortality, the final frontier, April 12, 2016
• Techniques de l’ingénieur, Augmented man: where does the research stand?”, March 31, 2016
• Laurent Alexandre, “Progressively, cancer will no longer be a fatal disease,” Europe 1, March 5, 2016
• Rescoll, Applications of nanotechnology to medical devices, Feb. 4, 2016
• Hinnovic, Nanotechnology in health: a revolution on the horizon?“, January 21, 2016
• Planet Health, Nanomedicine, where do we stand, January 6, 2016
• INSERM, Nanotechnologies, the new face of medicine, June 2015
• Arte, BiTS S02E20: Are the promises of transhumanism feasible? The S.F. culture is hollow!, March 12, 2015
• Noury M, La nanosanté: perspective et enjeux sociologiques de l’application des nanotechnologies à la médecine, Thesis in sociology presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Montreal and the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre, March 2014
• LEEM, Applications of nanotechnology to medicine, February 13, 2014
• LEEM, What will nanotechnologies bring to medicine? 2009
• OPECST, Nanosciences and medical progress, Jean-Louis Lorrain and Daniel Raoul, Senate, 2004
• Revue Sciences Plus, Les nanotechnologies et la santé, date ?

In English:

• Nanoparticles could one day help “cure the incurable”, scientists say, RMIT University , October 2022
• ETPN2022, the 17th annual event of European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN), June 2022
• Nanotechnology-Over a Decade of Progress and Innovation, US FDA, July 2020
• Nanomedicines: promises and reality, Lagarce F, Drug Discovery Today, 25 (3), 473-474, 2020
• Delivering the power of nanomedicine to patients today, Germain M et al, JCR, 326: 164-171, 2020
• Nanoparticle formulated vaccines: opportunities and challenges, Pingsai Lung, Jingnan Yang, Quan Li, Nanoscale, 2020
• Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), The big future of nanotechnology in medicine, June 25, 2020
• Developing personalized vaccines with biomimetic nanotechnology, Michael Berger, Nano Werk, April 3, 2020
• Nanoparticle-Based Vaccines Against Respiratory Viruses, Soultan Al-Halifa et al, Frontiers in Immunology, January 24, 2019
• Nanoparticle Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases, Pati R, Shevtsov M, Sonawane A, Frontiers in Immunology, 2018

In French :

• Big Média, BPI France, Nanoparticules en santé : vaccins, imagerie médicale, médicaments, 11 March 2025
• CNRS, Early detection of liver fibrosis using nanoparticles, July 2024
• CNRS, Towards a cancer treatment based on gold nanoparticles, February 2024
• La Recherche, Sébastien Lecommandoux, Nanovectors deliver drugs to the right place, July-September 2023
• Culture Sciences Chimie, Nanomaterials and their applications in cancer therapy, May 2023
• INSERM, Jamais sans mes nanoparticules magnétiques – une nouvelle voie thérapeutique pour les maladies de la rétine, February 2022
• Daily Geek Show, These drug nanoparticles show particular promise against cancer, January 4, 2021
• Camille Verry, Nanoparticles in radiotherapy, Pop’Sciences, University of Lyon, December 15, 2020
• George Simmonds, Researchers develop universal nanoparticle flu vaccine, RT Flash, February 11, 2020
• Institut Galien, Université Paris-Sud, Des nanos plein les bronches, Video, “Des idées plein la Tech”, November 2019]]
• Cécile Sicard-Roselli : Understanding the functioning of metallic nanoparticles under irradiation, Université Paris-Saclay, July 29, 2019
• Cancéropole CLARA, Nanoparticles to pulverize tumors, July 25, 2019
• CNRS, Cutaneous leishmaniasis treated with multifunctional nanoparticles, May 20, 2019
• CNRS, Dendritic nanomaterials for early cancer diagnosis, May 16, 2019
• CNRS, Glucocorticoid nanoparticles to treat rheumatoid arthritis, CNRS, May 2, 2019
• Le quotidien du médecin, Nanoparticles to improve radiotherapy effectiveness reach the market in Europe, April 8, 2019
• PANBioRA (2018-2021): European research program, “Personalized And/Or Generalized Integrated Biomaterial Risk Assessment” (nearly 8 million euros received from the European Union (source: Cordis, 2018))
• Saadia Kerdine-Romer, Hervé Hillaireau (Labex LERMIT), Nanoparticles are promising drug carriers, but what about their toxicity, especially on the immune level, Life Sciences UPSaclay, March 1, 2019
• CEA & INSERM, Nanoparticles to fight AIDS, February 27, 2019
• CERTOP, IMH, Cirimat, IPBS, Diabetes Lab of the French Federation of Diabetics, Association of Young Diabetics of Midi-Pyrénées, Research Project: NanoBrick “Nanotechnologies, Benefits and Risks” – final report, transdermal insulin delivery patch for diabetics using the conductive properties of carbon nanotubes to electrostimulate the skin to make it temporarily permeable to insulin, January 2019
• World Economic Forum, Blood, water and gold. – Scientists have invented a blood test that can detect cancer in just 10 minutesJanuary 2019
• NanoTransMed: “Innovations in Nanomedicine: from diagnosis to implantology”, a European research program involving German, French and Swiss scientists from the Upper Rhine region
• Laurent Lévy, CEO of Nanobiotix: “Nanomedicine is now a reality: more than 40 products on the market, 200 in development”, BigBangSanté, Le Figaro, October 2018
• Le Figaro, La nanomedicine enters the heart of cells, October 2018
• Les Echos, A mini-robot centipede to crawl inside our bodies, October 2018
• CNRS Journal, Diagnosing at the nanoscale, October 2018
• For Science, Nano and microparticles to treat osteoarthritis, Sept. 13, 2018
• Thelma radiology, The promise of nanoparticles to improve radiation therapy, September 5, 2018
• Technion, Optimal propulsion: helping nanoscale robots swim better in the human body, 2018
• Cancéropôle Est, Inorganic Nanoparticles in Cancer Thematic Day, June 5, 2018
• Science Post, Nanoparticles could help fight brain cancer, May 28, 2018
• Cyclon Hit, Nanoparticle drug delivery to combat antibiotic resistance, Cordis, April 30, 2018
• Glycovax Pharma, Glycovax Pharma files patent application for new semi-synthetic breast cancer vaccine, April 4, 2018
• SciencePost, ‘Injectable bandage’ made from algae could stop internal bleeding in minutes, April 4, 2018
• euronews, Osteoarthritis: the hope of targeted therapies, March 12, 2018
• Why Doctor, Blindness: gold nanoparticles to restore vision, March 7, 2018
• Acuite.co.uk, Israeli researchers have created eye drops to improve patients’ vision, 27 Feb 2018
• Le Monde, La nanomedicine contre le cancer, (video), 10 February 2018
• Les Echos, Vaxinano refines its nasally-administered non-adjuvanted vaccine, January 31, 2018
• EPFL, Gold nanoparticles capable of destroying viruses, December 18, 2017
• Science Germany, Using nanoparticles to improve drug action in the brain, December 5, 2017
• Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence, The first “swallowed-wired” drug soon to hit the market, Nov. 15, 2017
• INSERM, “When nanomaterials may improve the lives of paralyzed people”, Oct. 10, 2017
• France Info, Un patch fait fondre les poignées d’amour chez les souris, 15 September 2017
• CNRS, Magnetic cellular “legos” for tomorrow’s regenerative medicine, September 12, 2017
• INSERM, Nanopalpation of tumors: a lead to improve diagnosis?”, August 29, 2017
• France Diplomatie India, Biodegradable nanoparticles as an alternative to chemotherapy, 19 June 2017
• France Diplomatie Brazil, Nanoparticles coated with antibiotic compounds to eliminate resistant bacteria, 7 June 2017
• France Inter, ASCO 2017: nanoparticles to optimize the effects of radiation therapy, June 5, 2017
• SciencePost, Polymer functionalized graphene sheets to boost immunity, May 2017
• LCI, Les nano-particules d’or, la nouvelle arme anti-cancer?”, 10 May 2017
• Le Monde, Has the human being reached its limits?“, Sandrine Cabut and Nathaniel Herzberg, January 2, 2017
• Les Echos, De l’or pour combattre Alzheimer, August 28, 2016
• Polytechnique Montreal, An army of nanobots precisely targets cancerous tumors, Aug. 15, 2016
• Huffington Post, When ‘Transformers’ meet medicine: microrobots may soon be able to operate on us, August 1, 2016
• Huffington Post, How the new type of universal cancer vaccine works in theory, June 1, 2016
• The Conversation, Nano-imaging, a new tool for modern medicine, May 18, 2016
• L’Obs, A “universal treatment” for allergies? No, each case is different, April 27, 2016
• Echosciences Grenoble, Nanotechnologies applied to cancer treatment, April 21, 2016
• Sciences & Avenir, Breast cancer: nanotechnologies, the future of treatments?, 5 April 2016
• For Science, Nanoparticles against Parkinson’s, March 9, 2016
• Le Nouvel Economiste, e-health – The disruptive innovations of NBICs, 25 February 2016
• ARTE Future, Facing the future : Jacques Testart vs. Laurent Alexandre (video), February 17, 2016
• Institut Curie, Neuron, nanoparticle and magnetism: the Magneuron project, 25 January 2016
• Libération, Santé : le numérique en pleine forme, 26 November 2015
• Engineering Techniques, Detecting pathologies with an electronic nose, November 2015
• CNRS, Towards optimized cancer treatments using nanoparticles, November 2015
• Institut Pasteur, Advances in nanoparticulate carriers: Applications in diseases and infections, Scientific Conference, Paris, October 19-21, 2015
• INRA, Olfactory nanosensors and their potential application in the non-invasive detection of pathologies, Edith Pajot-Augy, September 2015
• Michèle Rivasi, The Commission has no exhaustive list of nanomaterials present in medicines authorized on European soil, 3 September 2015
• H Magazine, Nanobots injected into liquid to remove toxins, Aug. 28, 2015
• CNRS, New isotope labeling process to accelerate the evaluation of drug candidates, Aug. 17, 2015
• Health Magazine, Research: what is Google’s anti-cancer bracelet really worth, July 23, 2015
• France-Diplomatie, BIO 2015: New therapeutic applications in nanomedicine, July 9, 2015
• Blog, The future by 2099: New predictions from renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, June 22, 2015
• Rue89, L’OBS, “We’re heading toward a half-flesh, half-machine man,” June 10, 2015
• Futura Sciences, Electronics injected directly into the brain, June 9, 2015
• CEA Iramis, Hybrid nanovesicles for targeted therapy, May 16, 2015
• EDF Pulse, A box of drugs in the body, May 2015
• Sciences & Avenir, Cholesterol: “nano-drones” to clean the arteries?, February 23, 2015
• Developpez.com and The Atlantic, Google X Lab: cancer detection via nanoparticles in the body, January 30, 2015
• LEEM, Why use nanotechnology to treat, January 20, 2015
• Christophe Cartier, Modular design of biodegradable nanoparticles targeted against cancer, Chemistry 2.0, CNRS, April 2014
• LEEM, Nanovectors, nanoparticles, nanochips … what do nanoproducts look like, March 5, 2014
• LEEM, Applications of nanotechnology in cancer management, March 3, 2014
• Christophe Cartier, Dramatic anticancer activity for elongated nanoparticles, Chemistry 2.0, CNRS, January 2014
• Patrick Boisseau, Advanced medical imaging based on nanoparticles, Journée Scientifique de la Nanomédecine, Paris, 2012

→ English:

• Research effectively used nanoparticles to deliver chemo drugs directly to tumors in mice, University of Chicago, September 2024
• Nanoscale Medical and Pharmaceutical Products, NNI/NNCO, March 2024
• (In)stability of ligands at the surface of inorganic nanoparticles: A forgotten question in nanomedicine, Le Goas M et al, NanoToday, Volume 45, 101516, August 2022
• Core/shell nanostructures with enhanced hyperthermia properties for cancer therapy, Mater. Chem. Front.Montoya Cardona JE et al. 2021
• Nanomotors Closer To Reality For Drug Delivery, Nano Magazine, September 26, 2018
• A single-injection vaccine for the polio virus – Nanoparticles could offer a new way to help eradicate the disease worldwide, MIT, 21 May 2018.
• Nano World Cancer Day 2018, the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN), February 2, 2018
• How diseases can be targeted using nanotechnology – and why it’s difficult, The Conversation, September 8, 2017
• Nature Nanotechnology, The evolving landscape of drug products containing nanomaterials in the United States, D’Mello SR et al, 2017
• Cancer Nanotechnology Plan 2015, NIH (USA), 2015 and Opportunities in Cancer Nanotechnology: A Conversation with NCI’s Piotr GrodzinskiJanuary 2016
• EuroNanoMed II
• Maybe nano drug delivery not so magical after all?Frogheart, January 2015
• Has nanomedicine lived up to its promise?“, Subbu Venkatraman, Nanotechnology, 25 372501, 2014
• International Congress on Translational Nanomedicine, Angers, August 27-29, 2014
• The application of nanotechnology in medicine: treatment and diagnostics, Nanomedicine, 9(9): 1291-1294, March 2014
• Publications from the Canadian Biomaterials for Medical Imaging (BIM) Laboratory inform on the use of silica and gadolinium oxide nanoparticles
• NanoCardio Project, Interreg France-Walloon-Flanders Program

• Regulatory assessment of nano-enabled health products in public health interest. Position of the scientific advisory board of the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products, Front. Public Health, 11, Oualikene-Gonin W et al., March 2023
• LNE, 2nd Workshop on nanomedicines and nanomaterial-based medical devices, November 13, 2023
• INSERM, Nanotechnologies – A new facet of medicine, 30 August 2022
• LNE, 1st Workshop on nanomedicines and nanomaterial-based medical devices, June 30, 2022
• Canal Détox, Miniature implants in the brain to restore motor skills, really?, INSERM, September 8, 2020
• Allodocteurs, What is Neuralink, Elon Musk’s new brain implant, September 2, 2020
• Florence Gazeau and Florent Carn, What happens to gold nanoparticles from drugs in our bodies, The Conversation, March 3, 2020
• Committee on Prevention and Precaution (CPP), Nanotechnology – Nanoparticles: What Dangers, What Risks, February 3, 2020
• “Nanomaterials in Drugs and Medical Devices,” ANSM, undated, written from 2017 and obtained by AVICENN in 2020
• Raphaël Cornu, Nanoparticles and health: great therapeutic promises, but for what risk?, PhD thesis, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, under the supervision of Hélène Martin and Arnaud Beduneau, December 2019
• CEA, Regulating nanomedicine and biomaterials in the medical industry (Project Refine), December 5, 2019
• EMPA and Swiss Federal Council, How risky is nanomedicine, September 26, 2019
• APMnews, ANSM recommends regulatory changes for nanomaterials in health products (report), Feb. 13, 2019
• Sciences & Avenir, Used to treat cancers, nanoparticles could actually make them more virulent, February 8, 2019
• Marion Rousset, The resistible rise of transhumanism, Le Monde, 1 February 2019
• CERTOP, IMH, Cirimat, IPBS, Diabetes Lab of the French Federation of Diabetics, Association of Young Diabetics of Midi-Pyrénées, Research Project: NanoBrick “Nanotechnologies, Benefits and Risks” – final report, transdermal insulin delivery patch for diabetics using the conductive properties of carbon nanotubes to electrostimulate the skin to make it temporarily permeable to insulin, January 2019
• Frédéric Lagarce, professor of biopharmacy and hospital practitioner in Angers, January 2019: A paper published in Nature Nanotechnology shows that titanium dioxide, silica, and gold nanoparticles can induce changes in the endothelium and thus leakage of tumor cells, leading to metastasis. “What is interesting / original is to show a potential risk of nanotechnologies in the treatment of tumors while these technologies are often presented as the answer to improve the performance of anticancer drugs. It should now be verified if these endothelial modifications are also found with polymeric or lipidic nanoparticles, commonly used to encapsulate active ingredients and target tumors. If this were unfortunately the case, the whole strategy of nanomedicine (very cancer-oriented) would be called into question.
• Chapter 4. Risks and benefits of medical nanotechnologies: how to balance them?, Isabelle Poirot-Mazères, Patrick Chaskiel, International Journal of Bioethics and Ethics in Science, 2018
• Nathalie Panissal, Ethics, nano-health, macro education, TraHs, 4, December 2018
• Dalel Askri Study of biodistribution and toxicity of iron nanoparticles in rats and in a neuroblastoma line, Human Medicine and Pathology. Grenoble Alpes University; University of Carthage (Tunisia), 2018: “their use in the biomedical field must be taken with great care to avoid as much as possible any risk related to their exposure”
• Frank Damour, Les nanotechnologies comme technologie transhumaniste, in L’Homme & la Société, L’Harmattan, n° 207, 2018/2
• Olivier Rey, Leurre et malheur du transhumanisme, éditions Desclée de Brouwer, October 2018
• Critical Science, Transhumanism put to the test, July 2018
• Bientôt tous mi-Hommes, mi-robots, about the exhibition of the Lausanne-based photographer Matthieu Gafsou on transhumanism and the Human “improved” by technology, Arles, 2018
• Jacques Testart and Agnès Rousseaux, Au péril de l’humain – Les promesses suicidaires des transhumanistes, Seuil, 1 March 2018
• Jacques Testart and Marc Roux, Le transhumanisme, La Tête au carré, France inter, 1 March 2018
• Camille Gaubert, Cancer : how to differentiate the contribution of technology from ethical drift, Sciences & Avenir, 4 February 2018
• Are vaccines ‘contaminated by toxic nanoparticles’, Adrien Sénécat, Le Monde, 19 July 2017
• European Parliament and Council of the European Union, European Regulation on Medical Devices No. 2017/745, April 5, 2017
• Mathieu Noury, La médecine à l’heure des nanotechnologies, Liber Editions, March 2017
• PMO, Transhumanism or the end of the human species, Inf’OGM, n°144, March-April 2017
• The Free, Developing technology without replacing humans, March 4, 2017
• Que Choisir, Colorant E171 Les médicaments aussi!”, February 4, 2017
• Edgar Morin, “Let’s humanize transhumanism!”, Le Monde, November 8, 2016
• What’s up, The doctor facing the transhumanist religion, Laurent Alexandre, October 2016
• Technologos, Technology, Medicine and Health – The flip sides of a myth of progress, September 16-17, 2016
• Avicenn, What vigilance regarding nanomaterials in drugs and medical devices, veillenanos.fr, July 2016
• Les Echos, Transhumanism: to whom does our body belong, June 22, 2016
• Le Populaire, “Immortality doesn’t make me dream if it’s Google selling the ticket,” June 5, 2016
• Nanoscoope, Miniaturization, Micro and Nanotechnologies: Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies, May 2016
• Time, Be well, and be silent, April 23, 2016
• Arte, Immortality, the final frontier, April 12, 2016
• ARTE Future, Facing the future : Jacques Testart vs. Laurent Alexandre, February 17, 2016
• Hinnovic, Nanotechnologies in health: what are the health, environmental and ethical issues, February 9, 2016
• Planet Health,Nanomedicine, where do we stand, January 6, 2016
• France Culture, Nanotechnologies in our future, radio program, “Continent sciences,” September 21, 2015
• Michèle Rivasi, The Commission has no exhaustive list of nanomaterials present in medicines authorized on European soil, 3 September 2015
• Biosphere, A man half-flesh, half-machine, the technician utopia, June 20, 2015
• ETIC 2015, Nanomedicine, a dream finally accessible or a high-risk technology, ICT issues and controversy analysis at Télécom ParisTech, 2015
• France Inter, Transhumanism: toward an “augmented” human being?“, radio program, “Le téléphone sonne,” May 25, 2015
• La Tête au carré, Le transhumanisme ou l’homme augmenté, radio program with Jean-Michel Besnier, philosopher, Didier Coeurnelle of the association Technoprog’, Miroslav Radman, cell biologist and Sophie Coisne of the magazine La Recherche, 20 May 2015
• Les Echos, After the repaired man, the augmented man?, 17 April 2015
• Pascale Lintz, Analysis and ethical issues of nanotechnologies in medicine: time and discourse, systemic ethical approach: double discourse, psychoanalytical approach: complementarity of discourses between science and theology, Psychology, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, 2014
• Noury M, La nanosanté: perspective et enjeux sociologiques de l’application des nanotechnologies à la médecine, Thesis in sociology presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Montreal and the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre, March 2014
• van Est, Rinie et al., From BIO to NBIC convergence – From medical practice to everyday life. Written report for the Council of Europe Bioethics Committee, The Hague, Rathenau Institute, 2014
• ParisTech Review, The elusive risk of nano-medicine, October 2014
• ENS Paris, Conference “Can and should we improve the human?”, September 11, 2014
• France Culture, La mort vous va si mal, September 3, 2014
• “When we are all cyborgs, it will be too late,” interview with Swiss anthropologist Daniela Cerqui, Rue89, July 2014
• ANSES, Assessment of the risks associated with nanomaterials – Issues and update of knowledge, Annex 4 “Ethical issues of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials”, April 2014
• The-glob Journal, Toward an increasingly invisible and close world, April 2014
• François Ballet, Let’s develop non-technological innovation in medicine, Le Monde, 17 February 2014
• Jean-François Mattei and Jean-Michel Besnier, Where to draw the ethical line between “repaired man” and “augmented man,” La Croix, November 18, 2013
• Synthesis of the Colloquium “La nanomédecine, enjeux philosophiques”, nano2e, October 2013
• Thierry Magnin, Nano-biotechnologies in medicine: ethical issues, June 2013
• Afssaps (now ANSM), Recommendations on the toxicological evaluation of nanoparticulate drugs, October 2011
• Afssaps (now ANSM), Biological evaluation of medical devices containing nanomaterials, Scientific report, February 2011
• Christian Hervé, Michèle S. Jean, Patrick A. Molinari, Marie Angèle Grimaud, Emmanuelle Laforêt, La nanomédecine : Enjeux éthiques, juridiques et normatifs, Dalloz, 2007
• Ion Vezeanu, Impossibilia moralia – Nanotechnologies, communication and freedom, Arguments against human reproductive cloning, L’Harmattan, June 2007
• Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (CCNE): Opinion n°96 – Ethical issues raised by nanosciences, nanotechnologies and health, February 2007
• Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), Ethical questions raised by nanomedicine, October 2006

→ English:

• Arnold AM at al., The Promise of Emergent Nanobiotechnologies for In Vivo Applications and Implications for Safety and Security, Health Security, 408-423, 2022
• Dorota Napierska, Health Care Without Harm Europe (HCWH), Nanosilver in healthcare – does the silver bullet exist?
• Gaur N et al, Toxicity and Regulatory Concerns for Nanoformulations in Medicine, in The ELSI Handbook of Nanotechnology: Risk, Safety, ELSI and Commercialization, March 2020
• Joint Research Center (JRC), Anticipation of regulatory needs for nanotechnology-enabled health products (Refine), November 28, 2019
• Environmental hazard assessment for polymeric and inorganic nanobiomaterials used in drug delivery, Hauser M et al, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 17, 56, April 2019
• Peng F et al, Nanoparticles promote in vivo breast cancer cell intravasation and extravasation by inducing endothelial leakiness, Nature Nanotechnology, January 2019
• Jones R, “Against transhumanism” – a round-up of reactions so far, Soft Machines, 5 April 2016
• Kendall M & Lynch Y, Long-term monitoring for nanomedicine implants and drugs, Nature Nanotechnology, 11: 206-210, March 2016
• Murashova V & Howard J, Risks to Health Care Workers from Nano-Enabled Medical Products, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 12(6), 2015
• Pourzahedi L and Eckelman MJ, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Nanosilver-Enabled Bandages, ES&T, March 2015
• SCENIHR (Europe), Opinion on the Guidance on the Determination of Potential Health Effects of Nanomaterials Used in Medical Devices, January 2015
• Kazemi A et al, The Question of Ethics in Nanomedicine, Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics, August 2014
• HCWH, The era of nanomedicine – Factsheet: How innovations in healthcare research can lead to uncertainties in public health, 2014
• HCWH, Nanomedicine – new solutions or new problems?”, December 2013
• European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), The ethical aspects of nanomedicine, 2006