A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A new platform for studying neuroinflammatory diseases, utilizing advanced 3D bioprinting technology has been developed.

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 ...

“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 ...