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Microplastics have been detected in fruits and vegetables, plastic water bottles, the air, cosmetics, and household dust. ... USA TODAY Sports. Duke's 16-game winning streak halted in loss to ...
There are more microplastics accumulating in human brains than in any other organs, recent research finds. Image credit: Artur Debat/Getty Images. This article originally appeared on Medical News ...
Finding microplastics in human body parts is not new: Scientists have uncovered the minuscule waste products in human blood, lungs, brains, hearts and testicles. But a new study, published Monday ...
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Microplastics are common in our world today. In 2014, it was estimated that there are between 15 and 51 trillion individual pieces of microplastic in the world's oceans, which was estimated to weigh between 93,000 and 236,000 metric tons.
Thompson's paper, Lost at Sea: Where is All the Plastic?, [4] published in the journal Science in 2004, was the first to use the term microplastics, which has since become common parlance. [5] [6] [7] Since 2010 he has been professor of Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth. [8]
The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of New Mexico Health ...
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.