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07/03/2025
EVENT

Are Microplastics Fuelling the Allergy Epidemic? Key Insights from the Imptox Stakeholder Dialogue

Scientists, policymakers, and patient advocates met in Brussels to explore a possible new player in allergic disease - tiny plastic particles hiding in our food, air, and bodies.

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06/03/2025
EVENT

Impact of Micro- and Nanoplastic Particles on Allergies: New Insights

At the recent Imptox Stakeholder Dialogue in Brussels, Imptox Scientist, Dr. Michelle Epstein from the Medical University of Vienna presented groundbreaking research exploring the effects of micro- and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) on allergic diseases.

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21 Feb 2025 EVENT

JOIN our Stakeholder Dialogue: Plastic Particles, Allergies, and Emerging Risks

Imptox researchers explore the link between plastic particles and allergic disease at a hybrid event for stakeholders in Brussels.

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20 Feb 2025 EVENT

The Unintended Consequences of Innovation – From Plastics to the Microplastics Crisis

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt from the University of Vienna explains how a revolutionary material became an environmental challenge and what it teaches us about responsible innovation.

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13 Feb 2025 PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

From Waste to Circularity: MUW and UNIVIE’s Contribution to a Major Study on Lab Plastic Sustainability

A new peer-reviewed publication in EMBO Reports highlights the scale of lab plastic waste and the challenges of creating a circular economy for laboratory research.

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SCIENCE EXCHANGE

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Volume 267, Part 2 ARTICLE

Ovalbumin interaction with polystyrene and polyethylene terephthalate microplastics alters its structural properties

Nikola Gligorijevic, Tamara Lujic, Tamara Mutic, Tamara Vasovic, Maria Krishna de Guzman, Jelena Acimovic, Dragana Stanic-Vucinic, Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024 ARTICLE

Probing Long-Term Impacts: Low-Dose Polystyrene Nanoplastics Exacerbate Mitochondrial Health and Evoke Secondary Glycolysis via Repeated and Single Dosing

Miao Peng, Charlotte Grootaert, Maaike Vercauteren, Nico Boon, Colin Janssen, Andreja Rajkovic*, and Jana Asselman
Environmental Pollution, Volume 347, April 2024 ARTICLE

Experimental accumulation and depuration kinetics and natural occurrence of microcystin-LR in basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)

Wannes Hugo R. Van Hassel, Mohamed F. Abdallah, Maria Gracia Guzman Velasquez, Christopher O. Miles, Ingunn A. Samdal, Julien Masquelier, Andreja Rajkovic
protocols.io, March 2024 PROTOCOL

Microplastics in marine environments: protocol for isolating natural biofilms from seawater-incubated particles

Meril Massot, Elsa Gadoin, Andreja Rajkovic, Stephanie Bedhomme
Frontiers in Allergy, Volume 5 - 2024 REVIEW ARTICLE

Research gaps and future needs for allergen prediction in food safety

Fernandez A, Danisman E, Taheri Boroujerdi M, Kazemi S, Moreno FJ and Epstein MM
PNAS, Vol 121, No. 3 ARTICLE

Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy

Naixin Qian, Xin Gao, Xiaoqi Lang, Huiping Deng, Teodora Maria Bratu, Qixuan Chen, Phoebe Stapleton, Beizhan Yan, Wei Min

Polymers 2023, 15, 4703 ARTICLE

Characterization of Nanoprecipitated PET Nanoplastics by 1H NMR and Impact of Residual Ionic Surfactant on Viability of Human Primary Mononuclear Cells and Hemolysis of Erythrocytes

Djapovic, M.; Apostolovic, D.; Postic, V.; Lujic, T.; Jovanovic, V.; Stanic-Vucinic, D.; van Hage, M.; Maslak, V.
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