US EditionScientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot
Researchers found disposable glove coatings can create false microplastic readings, with cleanroom gloves producing fewer particles and new methods helping correct contaminated data.
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Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot
A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics that has been scaring us for years now. Lab gloves may have skewed the data in the research. She discovered that residue from latex or nitrile gloves may be unintentionally contaminating lab equipment used to measure microplastics in the air […] The post Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot appeared firs…
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Los Angeles TimesMicroplastics are everywhere — even in the labs studying them. That's a problem for research
As the science of detecting microplastics matures, so too does consensus about their ubiquity. Everywhere researchers have looked to find them, there they've been: In human brains and lungs; in breast milk and semen; in alpine snow and deep-sea sediment;…
A team of scientists: inside has discovered a significant problem in the measurement of microplastics in the environment. Wearing gloves in the laboratory could lead to a worldwide overestimation of the plastic load. read more on t3n.de
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