Nanoplastics could be interfering with your antibiotics - making the crucial drugs less effective and contributing to the rise of dangerous drug-resistant superbugs.
Using one of the most common antibiotics, called tetracycline, r, created a computer model to see how the medication interacted with bits of plastic that were less than one thousandth the thickness of a credit card.
They then tested what they learned in the model on human cells grown in the lab. It turns out that the antibiotics bind to the surface of the tiny plastic molecules.
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