A Biodegradable Rapid Test for Microplastics in the Human Body Just Got a Real Design
The images from the pandemic were hard to forget. Surgical masks tangled in mangroves, disposable gloves floating past fishing boats, lateral flow tests piling into landfills at a scale nobody had anticipated or planned for. At its peak, an estimated 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves were being consumed every single month worldwide,…