Tiny plastic particles are turning up inside the laboratories built to measure them, and the contamination is distorting ...

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...

When Florida State University began moving students and faculty out of the historic Dittmer Chemistry Lab building in the ...

Lab gloves contaminate microplastics research with stearate salts that mimic plastic signatures, creating false positives ...

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A University of Michigan study found that common nitrile and ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a hidden source of error in microplastic measurements: the gloves ...

Even though groundwater only makes up an estimated 0.61% of the water on Earth, it accounts for 98% of the available freshwater (Fetter, 1999). In many parts of the world (including southwestern North ...

Mycoplasma contamination is prevalent in cell culture labs: in one study, researchers identified mycoplasma contamination in 11% of the 10,000 cell lines they tested (Olarerin-George et al. 2015).

Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials ...