For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Research has detected microplastics in a range of vital body parts, including the heart and brain. Now, researchers break down how these nanoparticles enter the human brain and the potential impact ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1991, under President George H.W. Bush, the EPA finally deemed formaldehyde a probable human carcinogen and calculated the likelihood of it causing an extremely rare cancer that affects a part ...