Looking beyond jabs, sprays or tablets, scientists are thinking outside the box for delivering antiviral medication to ...

Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more ...

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You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.