Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they’ve found them — food, water, air and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren’t directly exposed to the ...

We’ve come a long way from the Vacanti mouse. Back in the mid-90s, Charles Vacanti and other researchers experimented with cartilage regeneration and, with the help of a biodegradable mold and bovine ...

Researchers in Germany have made a great breakthrough that could potentially revolutionize the future of regenerative medicine after they developed a mini 3D printer that’s capable of creating ...

Microplastic pollution continues to be a significant public health issue, as the materials are increasingly detected in water, soil and elsewhere in the environment. Detecting them within the human ...