CNN

Tiny shards of plastic are increasingly infiltrating our brains, study says

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...
CNN

Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...
VegOut Magazine

Think processed foods are just unhealthy? They're also putting plastic in your brain, study shows

How did ultra-processed foods become a delivery system for plastic fragments now embedding themselves in the human brain?
New Atlas

First totally synthetic human brain model has been realized

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...