A) Diagram showing chain breakage in plastic. B) Image of a flexible ... inevitably ending up in the human body. Preliminary studies suggest concerning mechanisms of action: once inhaled or ingested, ...

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 ...

It is in our bloodstream, in our lungs, in our liver – pretty much anywhere you look in the human body ... not kill the cell outright, but they can weaken it. Likewise, the plastic particles ...

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“This study also provides entirely new insights into how simple, basic physical mechanisms such as diffusion and self-organization may lead to the formation of complex cellulose networks in cells.” ...

But over time, exposure to heat and oxygen shed off minuscule pieces of these plastics, Kim added, which are known as microplastics, and even nanoplastics, most too small to see under a microscope ...

A new study reveals exactly how these plastic shards are formed and why so many end up where they shouldn’t – inside living cells, where they can potentially alter DNA and pose serious risks to human ...

Examining it carefully, he found that the cell content within the pollen’s ... during the six years it was in Innsbruck. The first pictures were made with conventional x-rays.