Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

Kymberlee Schopper has been arrested and charged with trading in human tissue after allegedly selling human remains through ...

Making the film Plastic People made me realize I am a human landfill. In the documentary, from The Nature of Things, I have my home, food and body tested for microplastics as part of an ...

the team said in a paper published by Nature Medicine in February. Other recently-published research has warned of ...

The Red Deer RCMP says human remains were discovered at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. They responded to the call on March 29 at 4:30 p.m., where they confirmed the findings and turned it over to the ...

human skin could be coaxed into growing in a lab and be given to burn victims and other patients who today must undergo painful skin grafts. Organs grown outside the body will transform medicine ...