Your brain tissue is 50% more plastic than in 2016

Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead — scientists just discovered your brain is a landfill for tiny plastic particles — with concentrations up to 30 times higher than other organs.
A cheery new study in Nature Medicine reports that researchers examined brain, liver, and kidney tissue from deceased donors and found microscopic plastic fragments everywhere — but especially in the brain. — Read the rest
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