There is a report detailing the research on public awareness of nanotechnology and synthetic biology mentioned in yesterday’s posting. You can find it here.

One of these days I’m going to figure out how to make the comments immediately visible until then I’ll write up comments in the postings which is why I’m mentioning Andrew Maynard (Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies). He dropped a line pointing out that the October 2008 issue of Esquire magazine features five scientists amongst their 75 most influential people of the 21st century. Three of  the five scientists are synthetic biologists. That’s pretty amazing when you think that most of Esquire’s readers have never heard of it (as per almost 90% of the US population according to the research data). Here‘s more about Andrew Maynard and Esquire’s October 2008 issue.