However, study after study has shown increased levels of microplastics in both the environment and the human body. Scientists ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

Study finds higher levels of microplastics in preterm placentas, raising concerns about its impact on fetal development and maternal health.

Microplastics appeared to show more prominent presence over the course of the past decade, according to medical researchers ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are accumulating in the placenta ... in full-term pregnancies. Surprisingly, preterm placentas had absorbed these plastics at an earlier stage, suggesting that exposure ...