Microplastics can be found in clothes, food, and even water — but now, they have been found somewhere even more unsettling: inside the human brain. A recent report from the New York Times is making ...

Relatively high levels of micro- and nanoplastics around brain tumours might indicate breakdown of the blood–brain barrier.

Chandigarh: Experts at the PGI human brain bank have started extracting DNA from preserved brain tissue. The purpose is to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elaine Bearer found that the microplastic clumps taken from brain samples are actually clusters of hook-shaped nanoplastics.

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

White matter pathways allow distant parts of the brain to communicate, supporting memory, emotion, and language. One such ...

A man who allegedly stole human brain samples from a medical history museum was arrested after a California man who bought some of the tissue online alerted authorities. David Charles, 21, was ...

Strange brown specks in two donated brains set a seasoned neuropathologist on an unexpected path. Elaine Bearer had examined countless samples during her long career, yet these glassy clusters puzzled ...