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

Paper tea bags made of cellulose and mesh nylon bags shed millions of plastic particles per milliliter. “The fact that they did find so many of these micro and nanoplastics in a product that’s ...

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about ...