The EU is about to ban the sale of body fluids, including breast milk, sperm, blood, and other “substances of human origin” (SoHO). Some argue this will decrease supply. Others claim the regulation ...

Forensic spectroscopy has emerged as a pivotal tool in the identification and analysis of body fluids at crime scenes, offering a suite of non‐destructive, rapid, and highly sensitive techniques to ...

An Iran-based research team collected urine, mucus, and lung lavage fluid samples from 30 participants who suffered from respiratory illnesses. They found a total of 490 microplastics in the samples, ...

Identifying different types of body fluids can help forensic experts reconstruct a crime scene, but it’s difficult to do so. In a study published in Electrophoresis, researchers developed a method ...

The human body is one of the weirdest things around. We’re full of all kinds of squishy fluids, we got our start as a single cell, and we each have a skeleton inside of us. But the weirdness doesn’t ...

A new study published in Environmental Research identified microplastics in various body fluids among people suffering from respiratory illnesses. An Iran-based research team collected urine, mucus, ...