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Finding microplastics in human body parts is not new: Scientists have uncovered the minuscule waste products in human blood, lungs, brains, hearts and testicles. But a new study, published Monday in ...
Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the ...
The key to understanding the drivers of physical and neurological disease lies in part with understanding the microscopic ...
Microplastics can be found in clothes, food, and even water — but now, they have been found somewhere even more unsettling: inside the human brain. A recent report from the New York Times is making ...
The funding, part of a new ARPA-H bioprinting initiative, aims to create transplant-ready organs—potentially within ...
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, cadaver ...
New research shows that the concentration of microplastics in our bodies has grown as global plastic production has increased The study looked at brain, liver and kidney tissue from cadavers The ...