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- Wei Min's team showed microplastics react with proteins
A study by Wei Min's team at Columbia University found that microplastics are not chemically inert and produce reactive oxygen species that damage proteins, lipids, and DNA.
- Field
- new materials
- What they did
- Researchers demonstrated that microscopic plastic particles are not chemically inert and generate harmful chemicals on their own.
- Why it matters
- This finding is crucial for understanding the long-term health risks associated with microplastics entering the human body.
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