At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

"They're at a much larger concentration in the body than many of us would have expected," he said. Researchers think the growing amount of plastic humans are exposed to could be behind the increase ...

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...

A breakthrough in bioprinting of living tissues could soon lead to 3D-printing of blood vessels and human organs, ushering in ...

Disposable plastic containers could be leaching dangerous chemicals into your takeaway food, potentially increasing your risk ...

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain ...

New research is sounding the alarm about what happens when plastic breaks down over time and where it ends up in our bodies.

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

Scientists found plastic particles in nearly all seafood samples. Smaller species like shrimp had more contamination.

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the blood-brain barrier.

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

Scientists say microplastics are unavoidable, but can we limit our exposure to these potentially harmful plastic particles?