No one, so far as my blogosphere radar is concerned, has quite picked up on this story yet– a paper in PNAS detailing the effects of nanoparticles on proteins, causing fibrillation of the form associated with Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeld-Jakobsen et. al. Because I am in the loop, I know that ICON has published a “backgrounder” that explains what this article means–with the advance intuition that this is going to be spun. I keep waiting… in a version of that old zen koan, since no one reads this blog, is it possible that I might affect my own observations of this event, even if no one is yet talking about it…
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what do you think is the delay? too tentative?
must be a busy news month. the science is apparently quite solid, and it’s an open access article, and it is PNAS… maybe everyone is so concerned that it will blow up for no good reason that no one is talking about it.