Microplastics turn up in nearly every human brain sample

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• ticulatedspline 9 minutes ago
  Given the previous issue of contamination from the lab and that huge amounts of "sterile" lab stuff is both plastic or wrapped in plastic I'd need to see some serious lvl5 clean-room assurances to take any of these new findings seriously.
• leonidasrup 55 minutes ago
  Could it be this?

  "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals"

  https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-ov...