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18/04/2025
EVENT

Imptox Workshops Engage Over 200 Students at Lionello Stock Middle School in Trieste

In 11 interactive sessions, about 240 students in Trieste (Italy) engaged with the science of micro- and nanoplastics, the aims of the Imptox project, and their own role as informed citizens.

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17/04/2025
RECOGNITION

Imptox Publication on Food Allergy Models Among Most-Viewed from 2023

Dr. Michelle Epstein’s article on animal models to study food allergies ranks in the top 10% of most-viewed Current Protocols papers published in 2023.

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04 Apr 2025 EVENT

FOODMicro 2026 in Ljubljana Will Address Micro- and Nanoplastics

Could Invisible Plastics Be Changing the Way We Think About Food Safety?

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26 Mar 2025 PROJECT PUBLICATION

Toxins in Our Food? Scientists Investigate How Water Contamination Affects Our Crops

New research examines how strawberries, lettuce and carrots absorb microcystins, raising questions about food safety and environmental interactions.

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25 Mar 2025 EVENT

Scientists call for action on microplastics after key European conference

All five CUSP projects met in Brussels to discuss the latest findings on the risks posed by micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and future priorities for research and policy

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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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