Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have been found lodged in human brain tissue at concentrations that dwarf ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Taichi A. Suzuki, Max Planck Institute for Biology and Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute ...
A human brain on a chip sounds like something from a science fiction film, a gadget powering its cyborg villain. But chemical and biological engineer Dr. Raquel Rodrigues at the International Iberian ...
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 2019, a toxicologist named Matthew Campen drove into the wilderness of ...
New research presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) reveals the presence of microplastics in human reproductive fluids, raising ...
On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...
The Eulipotyphla (true insectivores) is the third largest mammalian order, comprising over 500 species, and could be an important source of human infectious diseases. However, relatively little is ...