Nano-Plasmoplastics Hack Hormones

Plastics can hack hormones. Babies are at greater risk from those contaminants than full-grown people. To test what these plastics do to our bodies once they're consumed, the team bathed human embryonic kidney cells in plastic roughage shed by baby food containers. After two days of exposure to concentrated microplastics and nanoplastics, about 75% of the kidney cells died.