Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6V0ZS)
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
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The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study.
It found a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024. The researchers also found the tiny particles in liver and kidney samples.
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