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 ...

Standard nitrile and latex lab gloves shed hydrocarbons called stearates - particles added by manufacturers to keep gloves ...

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

As detailed in a recent paper published in the journal Analytical Methods, special substances added to disposable gloves to ...

It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation ...

Nitrile and latex gloves worn by scientists measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny ...

The tools meant to detect microplastics—lab gloves—might be quietly skewing the results. A new University of Michigan study ...

Study shows lab gloves release stearates, inflating microplastics data. Cleanroom gloves improve research accuracy.

A man tossing a blue medical glove into the trash, seen from the trash bin’s perspective. Nitrile rubber is used to make a variety of products such as gloves, but the material is difficult to recycle.

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

Walk into any medical examining room, chemistry lab or clean room and you won’t have to look far to see boxes of lab gloves. They’re often racked on the wall, sometimes three or four high, where ...