Microplastics can be found in clothes, food, and even water — but now, they have been found somewhere even more unsettling: inside the human brain. A recent report from the New York Times is making ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elaine Bearer found that the microplastic clumps taken from brain samples are actually clusters of hook-shaped nanoplastics.

Microplastics have moved from distant ocean gyres into the most intimate of places: the human brain. A growing body of research now suggests these tiny fragments may not just be passengers in our ...

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

Strange brown specks in two donated brains set a seasoned neuropathologist on an unexpected path. Elaine Bearer had examined countless samples during her long career, yet these glassy clusters puzzled ...