Scientists found microplastics in all 52 examined human brains. Newer brain samples had more plastic than older ones.

Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia Minderoo Centre − Plastics and Human Health, ...

One of the more alarming observations was the sixfold higher concentration of microplastics in brain samples from individuals ...

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

A new study published in ‘Nature Medicine’ has found that the human brain contains significantly higher levels of ...

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

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

In addition to the link between microplastics and preterm births, another study published in 2024 revealed that one in 10 premature births in the U.S. could be linked to parental exposure to ...

and the extracellular matrix in addition to the human blood monocytes and fluorescent microplastic particles." She hopes that the addition of these other cell types will reveal larger tumor-like ...