{"id":85421,"date":"2018-12-03T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/billions-of-nanoplastics-accumulate-in-marine-organisms-within-six-hours"},"modified":"2018-12-03T05:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:42:46","slug":"billions-of-nanoplastics-accumulate-in-marine-organisms-within-six-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/billions-of-nanoplastics-accumulate-in-marine-organisms-within-six-hours","title":{"rendered":"Billions of nanoplastics accumulate in marine organisms within six hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billions-of-nanoplastics-accumulate-in-marine-organisms-within-six-hours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ground-breaking study has shown it takes a matter of hours for billions of minute plastic nanoparticles to become embedded throughout the major organs of a marine organism.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by the University of Plymouth, examined the uptake of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a> by a commercially important mollusc, the great scallop (<i>Pecten maximus<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>After six hours exposure in the laboratory, billions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particles<\/a> measuring 250nm (around 0.00025mm) had accumulated within the scallop\u2019s intestines.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-billions-nanoplastics-accumulate-marine-hours.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-billions-nanoplastics-accu...hours.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking study has shown it takes a matter of hours for billions of minute plastic nanoparticles to become embedded throughout the major organs of a marine organism. The research, led by the University of Plymouth, examined the uptake of nanoparticles by a commercially important mollusc, the great scallop (Pecten maximus). After six hours exposure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85421","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}