Scientists warn of 'worrying' increase in microplastic levels in human brain - Brains of people with dementia shows greater ...

A new study found that the brain may contain higher levels of microplastics, equivalent to the amount found in a standard ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 ... For comparison, researchers also looked at ...

New research uncovered an alarming accumulation of plastic particles in human brains, raising concerns about their potential ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on January 3, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 1, titled “Characterization of ...

As global plastic production has ramped up in the last 20 years, so too has the concentration of these shredded, fossil fuel-derived polymers in human tissue samples. The findings are “pretty ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount ...

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

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

"The human brain is about 60% fat by weight ... looked at brains from people who died between 1997 and 2013. Brain tissue samples were gathered from the frontal cortex, the area of the brain ...