These can be smaller than a virus — just the right size to disrupt cells and ... Antarctic snow to human blood. If you look at a piece of plastic through a powerful microscope, you’ll see ...

A) Diagram showing chain breakage in plastic. B) Image ... the human body. Preliminary studies suggest concerning mechanisms of action: once inhaled or ingested, nanoplastics can cross cell ...

It is in our bloodstream, in our lungs, in our liver – pretty much anywhere you look in the human body, you will find minuscule bits of plastic ... and put under the microscope.