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 ...

"It led to a wild goose chase of trying to figure out where this contamination could possibly have come from." ...

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 report that residue from nitrile and latex gloves can transfer polymer fragments ...

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).

ST. PAUL — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears ...