Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

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The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

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Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

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The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts in soft tissues.

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the estimate for the entire body was thus 100 trillion bacteria. In 1977, Professor Savage's team compared this number to that of human cells (10 trillion), arriving at the now-famous ratio.