MOMENTUM partners at Leiden University explored this question by monitoring the uptake and transfer of tiny plastic particles from water through lettuce to ...

How dangerous are microplastics? And why would they affect your health? Dutch news programme EenVandaag asked these and other questions to MOMENTUM ...

MOMENTUM researcher Nienke Vrisekoop from UMC Utrecht performed at the recent Betweter Festival in Utrecht! Nienke talked about microplastics and what we ...

MOMENTUM researchers Laurens Mandemaker and Annemijne van den Berg were present at the MICRO 2024 conference on plastic pollution in Lanzarote. Laurens ...

We’re excited to share some MOMENTUM highlights from EUROTOX Congress 2024, the annual congress of European societies of toxicology, held in Copenhagen ...

MOMENTUM’s Nienke Vrisekoop discussed this question on Dutch radio channel NPO Radio 1 last night. She was the main guest in the radio show “De ...

Following the recent publication of her group, MOMENTUM researcher Marja Lamoree was interviewed by Dutch radio show “Met het Oog op Morgen”. In their ...

Our consortium meeting was a great success! We’ve had two days full of inspiring talks, useful discussions, and two poster sessions putting the spotlight ...

A new study by MOMENTUM partners at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University Medical Center confirms the presence of micro- and ...

Who is Irene Gosselink? “I’m a PhD candidate at Maastricht University and TNO, almost entering my final year. My background is quite diverse. I studied ...

Prof. Dr. Dick Vethaak, our dear colleague, friend and co-coordinator of MOMENTUM, passed away on June 1, 2024. An international expert in the field of ...

MOMENTUM researcher Nelly Saenen talks about her microplastics research in an educational video by Universiteit van Vlaanderen. In the video, she explains ...

Researchers from the University of New Mexico have found microplastics in human and canine testicles for the first time. The results were published in the ...

The global production of plastic is expected to double, or even triple, between now and 2050. This will inevitably result in more plastic pollution and ...

Driven by the desire for a clean living environment, Dick Vethaak has had a profound impact with his research. He is one of the frontrunners of research ...

In February, we celebrated the kick-off of the seven new breakthrough projects funded by ZonMw. A good opportunity to get to know the project leader of one ...

Martin Brits is leaving the MOMENTUM consortium. For the past three years, he has worked as a research associate at the VU Amsterdam in the group of Marja ...

Since 2018, researchers have been working hard to identify and minimise the health effects of micro- and nanoplastics. Initial projects have shown that ...

A recent study found that the presence of micro- and nanoplastics in human arteries was associated with an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, or ...

It is with a deeply saddened heart that we received the news that our dear colleague dr. ir. Ingeborg Kooter passed away on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. ...

In which ways can microbes on the surface of plastics affect human health? And which pieces of the puzzle need to be solved in order to include the ...

The Washington Post published an article this week discussing the current progress and challenges in microplastics research. Back in 2015, it was ...

A new documentary exploring the growing threat of microplastics for human health premiers at the SXSW Film Festival this month. The film titled “Plastic ...

The presence of micro- and nanoplastics in human arteries has been linked to cardiovascular diseases. A new study followed 257 patients with narrowed blood ...

Bottled water has been found to contain hundreds of thousands of tiny particles of plastic that have not previously been counted, raising questions over ...

Disposable bottles of water contain about 240,000 plastic particles per liter, according to a recent American study published in the American journal PNAS. ...

The presence of plastic particles in disposable water bottles has been known for some time, but the concrete number of 240,000 particles per liter on ...

In MOMENTUM, we collaborate with more than thirty research partners and industrial partners. By no means everyone knows each other, which is why we are ...

How can tiny plastic fibers affect lung cells? Researchers of University of Groningen and their MOMENTUM colleagues discovered that nylon fibers are ...

In an article of the Washington Post, MOMENTUM’s Dick Vethaak was asked to give his expert opinion on the human health risks microplastics pose to ...

With new grants totalling € 2,100,000 from ZonMw, 7 new breakthrough projects will start. These projects will do further research into microplastics and ...

On 5 October 2023, Malvern Panalytical organized the “Malvern Panalytical Future Days – The Plastics and Polymers edition”. This event ...

The Dutch Youtube series ‘Pointer Checkt’ is a program that seeks to counter disinformation by searching for the facts ...

Did you know that microplastics are already present in the human bloodstream? Dick Vethaak, emeritus professor of Water Quality and Health at Vrije ...

According to a new study published in the Environmental Science and Technology, doctors made the discovery at Beijing Anzhen Hospital in ...

AquaConSoil is a bi-yearly event where scientists, policy- and decisionmakers and industry representatives gather to learn, share and engage on sustainable ...

What happens when microplastics enter the human body? While the amount of microplastics in our environment is increasing, we know very little about the ...

There are growing signs that microplastics and nanoplastics can affect human health. In September last year it was announced that microplastics in the ...

MOMENTUM member Prof. Dr. Barbro Melgert and MOMENTUM postdoc Martin Brits both presented their research at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society ...

A new pilot study shows that microplastics — plastic particles that are smaller than five millimeters or close to the size of a short rice grain – can be ...