{"id":223645,"date":"2025-10-19T04:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/chemicals-may-be-hitching-a-ride-on-nanoplastics-to-enter-the-skin"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:06:41","slug":"chemicals-may-be-hitching-a-ride-on-nanoplastics-to-enter-the-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/chemicals-may-be-hitching-a-ride-on-nanoplastics-to-enter-the-skin","title":{"rendered":"Chemicals may be hitching a ride on nanoplastics to enter the skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemicals-may-be-hitching-a-ride-on-nanoplastics-to-enter-the-skin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plastic is ubiquitous in the modern world, and it\u2019s notorious for taking a long time to completely break down in the environment\u2014if it ever does.<\/p>\n<p>But even without breaking down completely, plastic can shed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tiny+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny particles <\/a>\u2014called nanoplastics because of their extremely small size\u2014that scientists are just now starting to consider in long-term health studies.<\/p>\n<p>One of those scientists is Dr. Wei Xu, an associate professor in the Texas A&amp;M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences\u2019 Department of Veterinary Physiology &amp; Pharmacology. Xu\u2019s current work is focused on what happens when nanoplastics interact with seawater, where they can pick up some curious hitchhikers in the form of chemicals and organic components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic is ubiquitous in the modern world, and it\u2019s notorious for taking a long time to completely break down in the environment\u2014if it ever does. But even without breaking down completely, plastic can shed tiny particles \u2014called nanoplastics because of their extremely small size\u2014that scientists are just now starting to consider in long-term health studies. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223645","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}