When Florida State University began moving students and faculty out of the historic Dittmer Chemistry Lab building in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"It led to a wild goose chase of trying to figure out where this contamination could possibly have come from." New study ...
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).