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Advancing pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the accurate quantification of micro- and nanoplastics in human blood
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Researchers developed and refined pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (a technique that heats plastics to identify their chemical fingerprints) to more accurately measure micro- and nanoplastics directly in human blood. Improving this method is critical because reliable detection in biological samples is a key step toward understanding how much plastic exposure humans are actually experiencing.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43591-025-00152-7.
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