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 ...

a team led by University of New Mexico toxicologist and professor of pharmaceutical sciences Matthew Campen concluded that the average brain now contains the equivalent of one plastic spoon ...

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests. The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest ...

“That would mean that our brains today are 99.5% brain and the rest is plastic.” The presence of plastic was increased in the brains of those who'd been diagnosed with dementia before their ...

The tiny plastic particles are gobbled up by immune cells, travel through the bloodstream and eventually become lodged in blood vessels in the brain. It’s not clear whether such obstructions ...

The research out of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences (UNM) found that plastic accumulation in the brain has surged by 50 per cent over the past eight years, with dementia patients ...

Brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic as brains from everyone else. The study did not answer whether higher levels of plastic in the ...

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 ...

As detailed in a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, a team led by University of New Mexico toxicologist and professor of pharmaceutical sciences Matthew Campen concluded that the average ...