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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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Apr 8, 20241 min read


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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Mar 28, 20242 min read


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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Mar 3, 20242 min read


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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Feb 1, 20243 min read


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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Jan 18, 20241 min read


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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Dec 5, 20232 min read


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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Oct 26, 20231 min read


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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Sep 28, 20232 min read


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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Sep 7, 20232 min read


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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Aug 1, 20231 min read


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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Jul 26, 20234 min read


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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Jul 26, 20231 min read


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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Jul 26, 20232 min read


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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Jul 26, 20232 min read


Collaborations with PlasticTrace and ILSI to improve understanding of MNPs for food safety
PlasticsFatE is happy to announce that we are forming new collaborations with the PlasticTrace project and the ILSI network. The...
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Jul 26, 20231 min read


UN Environment Programme report: Chemicals in Plastics
The UN Environment Programme has recently published a report that provides a succinct overview of our knowledge on chemicals in plastics....
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Jul 26, 20232 min read


PlasticsFatE Coordinator - Rudolf Reuther - speaks to Greenpeace Magazine
PlasticsFatE's Scientific Coordinator, Rudolf Reuther, was recently interviewed by Greenpeace Magazine in Germany for the latest issue....
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Jul 26, 20232 min read


German Research Foundation (DFG) extends CRC 'Microplastics' at University of Bayreuth
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will again fund the Collaborative Research Center 1357 'Microplastics' at the University of Bayreuth...
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Jul 25, 20232 min read
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