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

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

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

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

Brain samples pulled from human specimens contained 7 grams of microplastics, a weight that is similar to that of a standard disposable spoon.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early ... “The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy ... at brains from people who died between 1997 and 2013. Brain tissue samples were gathered from the frontal cortex, the area of ...

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics ... and it's not the first study to show that microplastics are being found in human tissue." "Again, we don't know the exact human health ...

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 ...