A spoonful of plastic found inside human brain, scientists warn of health consequences and suggest what to do about it – The Times of India
Microplastics are aggressively competing for a place in the ecosystem. They are present everywhere, including the human brain. A recent paper in Nature Medicine found that the human brain contains approximately a spoon’s worth of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs); brain tissues were found to have 7–30 times higher amounts of MNPs than other organs such…