For the first time, scientists have used real-time imaging to track tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the ...
“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities remains unclear,” wrote the study’s authors.
Studies in mice show that microplastics entering the bloodstream are engulfed by immune cells, forming clusters that can block cerebral blood vessels ...
An increased risk of dementia among individuals exposed to brain trauma, traumatic brain injury, has been known for almost a century.
Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...
A new platform for studying neuroinflammatory diseases, utilizing advanced 3D bioprinting technology has been developed.