Researchers Measure Movement of Nanomaterials in Simple Food Chain

Friday, May 30, 2008 - 17:35 in Biology & Nature

A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology shows that while engineered nanomaterials can transfer up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred is relatively low and there is no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms.

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