Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells ... and Advanced Materials Center at ...

with the particles even entering the cell nucleus that houses the genetic material. The result suggests a key role for intestinal mucus in the uptake of these pollutant particles and underscores ...

During their experiments, the team found that most of these microplastics are taken up by the mucus-producing intestinal ... the cell nucleus - the part of the cell that houses genetic material.

inexplicably replacing the intestine-derived material with new human or animal tissue. Moreover, the replacement tissue matches the tissue that existed originally in that part of the body. "The body ...

Pathogen-fighting immune cells called tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (TRM cells) go through a surprising transformation -- and relocation -- as they fight infections in the small intestine.