Preserved in formaldehyde, it looked like half a pancake ... of Medicine in Manhattan first stumbled across the neurons in human brain specimens in 1995, in a region toward the front of the ...

Live human brain slices show that only a razor‑thin balance of amyloid beta keeps synapses safe. Any disruption, even slight, ...

According to new research, brain aging is a biological process involving degenerative, adaptive, and regenerative changes in ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives.

The chemical formaldehyde is found just about everywhere ... This past week, an EPA evaluation said it poses “an unreasonable risk” to human health. A ProPublica investigation found that ...

The average brain may contain a spoonful of plastic, a new study suggests. The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest ...

EPA said formaldehyde, a ubiquitous and cancer-tied chemical, presents an “unreasonable risk” to human health, a finding that triggers regulatory action to restrict or ban certain uses.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...