"Human brains contain approximately a spoon's worth of microplastics and nanoplastics, with levels 3-5 times higher in ...

By growing tiny samples of brain tissue in the laboratory, researchers were able to spot a key difference in the early development of human brains when compared to chimps and apes. When humans and ...

The surrounding environment has a huge impact both on the way our brains develop and how that brain is transformed into a unique human mind. Of course, there's nothing new about that: human brains ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA—and a boost in brainpower ...

They also found that people in their study who were diagnosed with dementia had up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the condition. It found that the human ...

For Jeff Yurcisin, the CEO of Grove Collaborative, hearing about a new study showing an alarming number of nanoplastics found in the human brain ... 48% of the weight of brains in the study ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time. In the study, published Monday in the ...

Microplastics, present in human brains, liver and kidneys, pose serious health risks such as oxidative stress, inflammation and neuroinflammation. Studies show that people with detected ...

Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen ... The researchers also found higher microplastic levels in the brains of people who had had a dementia diagnosis – although, the researchers ...