Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

Scientists from the University of Liverpool and their global collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for ...

New study shows plastic accumulates in the brain, as well as other body parts. Scientists don't know what impact it has if any.

Financial writer recommends Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. for high-risk investors due to promising preclinical Alzheimer's ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

Researchers develop 3D blood-brain barrier model to study Alzheimers and neuroinflammation New platform created to improve ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which immune cells wiggle their way across the blood-brain barrier in diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). A type of T-cell involved in autoimmune ...

Everywhere you look, microplastic pollution is a growing crisis. Tiny plastic fragments have been found in oceans, food, ...

Trapped immune cells laden with microplastics starve the brain of oxygen—mouse study links vascular blockages to memory loss ...