Ground-breaking Study Reveals How Micro- and Nanoplastics Affect Human Immune Cells
Plastic pollution has become a global concern, with micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) infiltrating various ecosystems, including the human...
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MAELSTROM One Ocean, One Health Welcomes PlasticsFatE's Perspective
PlasticsFatE’s Scientific Coordinator, Rudolf Reuther, has been praised for his highly informative input to the recently held MAELSTROM...
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CUSP: Join us at SETAC 2024 in two major sessions
Are you coming to SETAC EUROPE 2024? If so, don't miss CUSP partners and presentations at our two major events: The Fate and Effects of...
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Exploring the Impact of Micro & Nanoplastics on Intestinal Health: Insights from Cutting-Edge Research Presented at the Society of Toxicology
At the recent Society of Toxicology conference in Salt Lake City, Meike Van der Zande, a PlasticsFatE researcher from Wageningen Food...
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Seas of Plastic - PlasticsFatE partner Gaiker explains hazards on TV
PlasticsFatE partner Alberto Katsumitis from Gaiker recently featured on the Spanish EITB TV programme Teknopolis, in which he was...
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Microplastics are not microplastics – physical properties matter for their interactions with cells
Source: University of Bayreuth, Press Release No. 014/2024, 01.02.2024 New findings from a research team at the Collaborative Research...
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CUSP Early Career Researchers Share Progress and Launch Videos
On November 21-22, 2023, Early Career Researchers within the CUSP consortium came together for a virtual exchange in which they...
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How do you Solve a Problem like Micro and Nanoplastics? Insights from our World Café
PlasticsFatE has been funded by the EU to improve our understanding of the fate and effects of micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) and...
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CUSP Takes a Voyage around HaDEA
The CUSP Cluster, represented by Rudolf Reuther (ENAS, PlasticsFatE Scientific Coordinator) as Coordinator 2023-2024, was recently...
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SETAC 2024 - Call for Abstracts
Are you conducting research into fate and effects of MNPs in relation to human exposure from early life to adulthood? The CUSP Cluster is...
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CUSP scientists interviewed on their research: Can microplastics carry infectious diseases?
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) interviews CUSP researchers from the PlasticsFatE and Imptox projects as they...
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Summertime Reading! PlasticsFatE's Newsletter is out
PlasticsFatE has had a packed six months and this issue - downloadable from Zenodo - brings you a summary of our research developments...
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PlasticsFatE's Progress at the End of Year Two
In this news item, we provide an update of recent research and results as we embark on the third year of our project. PlasticsFatE has...
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CUSP 2023 International Conference
Planning is well underway for this year's CUSP International Conference, to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands on Thursday 14th...
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PlasticsFatE Partners Team up in Oslo
Over two intensive and dynamic days in June, the PlasticsFatE partners met up to present and discuss the developments in the project and...
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Advances in hazard assessment of micro- and nanoplastics and contaminants in humans
Nine early career researchers from PlasticsFatE attended a training workshop organized by STAMI following the PlasticsFatE General...
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