WASHINGTON — Plastic is nearly impossible to avoid. From food containers to grocery bags, it’s everywhere, and new research shows it’s not just around us. It’s inside us. The Plastic Inside Us: How ...

Mayo Clinic's Engineering & Therapeutics in Gastrointestinal Disease Lab is implementing microrobotics in the gastrointestinal tract using a swallowable, remote-controlled robotic capsule.

Tiny surgical robots are learning to make decisions inside the human body, using AI to interpret complex biological environments in real time. Unlike traditional minimally invasive procedures, where ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These microbes live on the skin, in the mouth, and throughout the digestive ...

A team of researchers has found a hidden "army" deep inside half the global population that protect the human body from a ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Microplastics, tiny bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters in size, are now found in our air, food, water, and even inside the human body, according to new research led by scientists from China and ...

The lactic acid bacterium found in the dish helps bind nanoplastics inside the intestine, allowing them to remain together when exiting through the bowel Getty Stock Images Scientists are sharing ...

Scientists stress plastic pollution is real, but health impacts inside the body remain uncertain Scientists are raising serious doubts about a wave of high-profile studies claiming to have found ...

The Department of Health and Human Services will is introducing a first-of-its-kind program to study microplastics and the effect they have on the human body, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.