{"id":210821,"date":"2025-04-07T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/qa-scientists-uncover-process-behind-plastics-dangerous-fragment-shedding"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:02:58","slug":"qa-scientists-uncover-process-behind-plastics-dangerous-fragment-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/qa-scientists-uncover-process-behind-plastics-dangerous-fragment-shedding","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Scientists uncover process behind plastic\u2019s dangerous fragment shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qa-scientists-uncover-process-behind-plastics-dangerous-fragment-shedding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus\u2014just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them almost everywhere they\u2019ve looked, from Antarctic snow to human blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus\u2014just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them almost everywhere they\u2019ve looked, from Antarctic snow to human blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}