"The body of research on microplastics is growing and it is already showing us that the health impacts are very concerning," said Tracey Woodruff, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Woodruff recently conducted a systematic review of 2,000 previous studies on animals, fi...
“We humans have to decide what to do with the knowledge that we are a little bit plastic inside,” says Heather Leslie, an independent scientist who pioneered microplastics and human health research in Europe. While the extent of the potential damage is still unexplored territory, Leslie tells...
humans or animals, whatever kind of baby it is, but all is not lost. Join us today for an exploration of microplastics and nanoplastics and what we can do to dig out from underneath this mountain of plastic under which we have buried ourselves. Here we go with Matthew Simon....
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Our research shows that we are ingesting microplastics at the levels consistent with harmful effects on cells, which are in many cases the initiating event for health effects . . . We know that microplastics can cross the barriers of cells and also break them, We know they can also cause ox...
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They are easily ingested by wildlife, where they enter the food chain and are ingested by humans. And given their microscopic size, they can easily make their way into our homes, too. Are Microplastics Harmful? The potential harm from microplastics is a subject of ongoing research, but early...
Microplastics are turning up everywhere, fromremote mountain topstodeep ocean trenches. They also are inmany animals,including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment aremicrofibers—plastic fragments shaped like tiny threads or filaments. Microfibers come from ma...
Microplastics are a known endocrine disruptor in humans, with the ability to impact the nervous and immune systems. While the level of microplastics present in most humans is still considered too low to trigger more significant health issues, the plastics don't often pass completely through...
the presence of microplastics has caused inflammation in human cells, and in rats and mice. Yet we do not know how much microplastic humans are exposed to and, therefore, whether the quantities used in laboratory experiments reflect human experience. ...