Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes ... Of course they’ve made their way into human tissue, he says. Earlier studies have found them in lungs, intestines, blood ...

Tiny microplastics are making their way into the human brain, and new research suggests the problem is getting worse.

The team's new device is a small plastic chip whose specially designed chambers are ... at PSOM and the paper's other senior author, proposed developing a model of human bone marrow and sending it to ...

The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest amounts found in the brains of people who had dementia. By 2024, the average ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...