Even though groundwater only makes up an estimated 0.61% of the water on Earth, it accounts for 98% of the available freshwater (Fetter, 1999). In many parts of the world (including southwestern North ...

Tiny plastic particles are turning up inside the laboratories built to measure them, and the contamination is distorting ...

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 ...

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...

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).

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

Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials ...

(AP) — Laboratory tests of ByHeart infant formula confirmed some samples were contaminated with the type of bacteria that has sickened more than 30 babies in a growing infant botulism outbreak, the ...

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 ...