Fish also suffer harmful effects from eating microplastics. Microplastics can damage their intestines, gills, and brain among ...

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...

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

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

Scientists examining postmortem brain tissue found microplastic levels significantly higher in the brain compared to other ...

They also found that people with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic in their brains as ... Campen said the size of the micro- and nanoplastics, measuring 200 nanometers or less, are ...

While it is not the first time scientists have detected micro- and nanoplastics in the brain, the study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature found concentrations of plastics were ...

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests ... There was also a higher concentration of micro- and nanoplastic particles in the brains of people with a documented ...

Tiny particles of plastic known as micro and nanoplastics. But despite the ubiquity of microplastics in the human body, they’re not always easy to find. To demonstrate this, Campen’s colleague ...