Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became ...

Niklason and her team spent more than a decade isolating blood vessel cells from human organ and tissue donors. They tested cells from more than 700 donors and found that those from five of those ...

A new study tracking microplastics in the bodies of mice in real time discovered a disturbing pattern, adding to a growing ...

“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities remains unclear,” wrote the study’s authors.

Scientists hope body tissues grown in labs will become a familiar sight in medicine. Researchers around the world are working ...

This biologically inspired platform makes it possible to build living human marrow tissue that can generate functional human blood cells and release them into culture media flowing in engineered ...

Microplastics may cause blockages in blood vessels in the brain and affect behavior, according to a study on mice.

Penn researchers have developed a platform that emulates human bone marrow’s native environment. This breakthrough addresses a critical need in medical science, as animal studies often fail to fully ...

With microplastics now permeating our food and our bodies, researchers are keen to assess the potential damage these tiny ...

“In the future, we plan to collaborate with clinicians,” says Huang. “We will enhance our imaging techniques for the detection of microplastics in human blood vessels, and investigate whether ...

Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of ...