On the science side, nanotechs for real It will dominate the world for the next years, says Darrell Brookstein, managing director of Nanotech Co., San Diego consultancy and author of Nanotech Fortunes Make Yours in the Boom, published this year. The Pasadena Calif. companys projects include finding ways to use very tiny molecules to cut drug toxicity and developing new methods to make computer chips. Free ATS, simple interface. Buy Stocks for 4 ShareBuilder No Minimum required to Open an Account. Online access 24X7. ExxonMobil Taking on the worlds toughest energy challenges.

In San Diego, Accelrys Inc. One way to invest in the oldline technology giants that have big presences in nanotech. VECO, in Woodbury, which make the powerful microscopes and energybeam devices used to probe ultratiny structures, figure to grow with the industry. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page. Nanotech, they say, promises to reengineer the manmade world, molecule by molecule, sparking wave of innovation in everything from machines to medicine. Start Investing Today!

The Pasadena Calif. companys projects include finding ways to use very tiny molecules to cut drug toxicity and developing new methods to make computer chips.

Over the past three years, venture capitalists have poured some 900 million into the field few call it an industry yet while governments have invested many billions more in research & development over the past decade. Established companies spent an estimated 3. 8 billion on nanotech last year, making them the largest private funders of nanotech R&D, says Peter Hbert, CEO of Lux Research Inc., New York market consultancy. For investors, the downside is that any gains in nanotech will initially account for just sliver of the blue chips earnings and have limited impact on their shares.

On the science side, nanotechs for real It will dominate the world for the next years, says Darrell Brookstein, managing director of Nanotech Co., San Diego consultancy and author of Nanotech Fortunes Make Yours in the Boom, published this year. For investors, the downside is that any gains in nanotech will initially account for just sliver of the blue chips earnings and have limited impact on their shares. ShareBuilderCountrywide Home Loans No Closing Refi Options. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page.

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