I feel the microplastics contamination story which turns out to be measuring nitrile gloves used preparing samples is in this space. We can now measure things down to levels that may exceed our ability to exclude them as contaminants, routinely.
I’d say that has been true since we started using spectrometers (of all kinds). Those things are preposterously sensitive and pretty damn routine. Nowadays of course there are also other, more narrowly scoped detection methods as well, such as PCR.
I’d say that has been true since we started using spectrometers (of all kinds). Those things are preposterously sensitive and pretty damn routine. Nowadays of course there are also other, more narrowly scoped detection methods as well, such as PCR.