In collaboration with the company BRAVE Analytics, researchers at TU Graz have developed a method to detect nanoplastics in ...

Microplastics and much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we ...

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe.

Researchers have developed a new technique that can detect the presence of micro- and nanoplastics in clear body fluids. They ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large ...

"Our method for detecting micro- and nanoplastics can be applied to clear body fluids such as urine, tear fluid or blood plasma," said Harald Fitzek. "It is also suitable for the continuous monitoring ...

The observations were made possible by single-molecule atomic-resolution time-resolved electron microscopy (SMART-EM), a ...

Noting that intravenous infusion of microplastic particles (MPs) usually proceeds from plastic bottles ... spectroscopy combined with scanning electron microscopy. The researchers found that ...

There is growing concern that plastics may also be responsible for significant harm to the earth’s environment and human health ...

Researchers have identified the molecular mechanism responsible for the fragmentation of plastics into nanoparticles. These ...