Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight ...
Indian American researcher’s new AI-enhanced scanning method promises to boost quest for high-resolution mapping of the brain ...
Researchers say some widely reported findings of microplastics in human organs may be false positives Critics warn rushed ...
Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human ...
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Microplastics have moved from distant ocean gyres into the most intimate of places: the human brain. A growing body of research now suggests these tiny fragments may not just be passengers in our ...
Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...
Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the first time, scientists have produced detailed maps of these fiber webs across ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...