Researchers are just beginning to understand how microplastics might be affecting human health. A Reporter visited a lab to ...

A study in rats found that ingesting chitosan, a dietary fiber from shells, significantly increased the fecal excretion rate ...

Researchers have identified the molecular mechanism responsible for the fragmentation of plastics into nanoparticles. These ...

Scientists, farmers, and consumers all worry about how that’s affecting human health, and many seek solutions. But industry experts say it’s difficult to know where plastic ends up or get rid ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more ... "Based on cell biology 101 and textbook pictures of cells, you might think that we understand ...

The researchers used a laser-powered microscope to record how individual cells ... than a human hair. With electron microscopes, they took nearly 100 million high-resolution images of those ...

each 1/400th the width of a human hair, and used an array of electron microscopes to take high-resolution pictures of each slice. Finally, another team at Princeton University used artificial ...

She posted a series of pictures from the location. In the pictures, plastic bottles and polythene bags were seen scattered all around. It also showed overflowing bins with garbage and other ...

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 ...

Shihabeddin et al utilized single-cell RNA-Seq analysis of adult P23H zebrafish animals to identify transcription factors (e2fs, Prdm1a, Sp1) expressed selectively in neural progenitors and immature ...

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 ...