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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In A Nutshell Common lab gloves can leave behind residues that look like microplastics under standard tests. A single touch can create thousands of false positives, potentially skewing pollution data.

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).

Laboratory space should be surveyed with filter wipe smears to check for loose contamination. The frequency at which a survey must be taken is based on radiation use/storage. See below: All survey ...