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> Her result was that the microplastic particles she studied were too large to interact with T cells. Her "result" of what? Was there an actual experiment and
by magicalist 3mo ago
> Her result was that the microplastic particles she studied were too large to interact with T cells.
Her "result" of what? Was there an actual experiment and what was its scope or was this by surveying literature?
Microplastics are of a pretty large range of size, and then there are nanoplastics below that.
I'm also not an expert, but a quick search shows a number of results of microplastics affecting T cells, some directly and some in terms of immune signaling, so this negative result doesn't seem that definitive.
(as usual, the difficulty is in teasing out in vivo effects)
- vitally3643 3mo agoI'm not an expert but I'm going to condescend about an expert's "results" anyway. Very informative, thank you for your comment. You have truly contributed to the conversation. Good job.
- magicalist 3mo ago> I'm not an expert but I'm going to condescend about an expert's "results" anyway. I mean it's a detail free second hand anecdote about someone's informal discussion of their bachelor's thesis. Which part of that is the basis of a good scientific conversation?