Luisa Galgani

Dear all backers, experiment.com team, and our endorsers, thanks for your support and for trusting and endorsing our project. Unfortunately, we did not manage to reach our funding goal. However, wi...

A new paper by our colleague Dr. Cozar from Cadiz University (Spain) shows how micro plastics end up in the Arctic Ocean..and possibly on the seafloor. So scary. "The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for...

Here a nice picture of our "home-made" micro plastic fibers that we'll use in the experiment. We have been cutting them with a cryo-microtome with the help of. prof. Bellani, from the University of...

Dear all our backers, we are almost there! We almost reached 50% of our funding goal and not much is still missing! Either all or nothing, so we really your help by sharing this project to your net...

Wow! I am very very happy to see that support and attention our project raised lately. I am really glad. Our hypothesis is that something special is happening at the sea-surface - the hair of the w...

...We will have reached the amount needed for flow cytometry reagents and micro plastics (fibers) home-made consumables (Polyester standard filaments, freezing-agent, ethanol). 

We have almost collected what we would need to buy polyester fiber to make the particles that will be added to the mesocosms. Please keep sharing our project and help us reach the goal!

Dear all our backers, thanks! we have reached the amount to buy SYBR GREEN I fluorescent reagent for bacteria counts by flow cytometry. That's great news, as this is one of the most expensive reage...