On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

A new study found that the brain may contain higher levels of microplastics, equivalent to the amount found in a standard ...

People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the condition, a new study has found.

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a method to detect ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

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

A new study shows that microplastics are making their way into our brains, and that their concentrations are rising.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

Chemistry researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found specific markers that may lead to new blood tests for ...