The brain's health depends on more than just its neurons. A complex network of blood vessels and immune cells acts as the ...

For the first time, however, experts succeeded in visually tracking the movement of microplastics through brain blood vessels in mice—and the pile-ups resembled a microscopic “car crash.” ...

More plastic-packed cells would sometimes pile on — “like a car crash in the blood vessels”, says Huang. Some obstructions eventually cleared, but others remained for the four-week ...