In a finding that suggests microplastics may pose a special danger to men, a new study has shown that human testicles contain these tiny bits of plastic at levels triple that seen in animal testicles and human placentas.
In a finding that suggests microplastics may pose a special danger to men, a new study has shown that human testicles contain these tiny bits of“They look like little shards, tiny broken bits from very, very old plastics,” said lead researcher Matthew Campen, a regents' professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His team's findings were published recently in the journalis in our bodies.
In the new study, researchers tested 23 preserved testes from cadavers who were ages 16 to 88 when they died. They then compared the levels of 12 different types of plastics in those testicles with plastics found in 47 dog testes. Researchers expected to find more plastic shards in the testicles of older men in the study, but that wasn't the case, Campen noted.
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