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Letter: Building brains that are immune to microplastics

Published 18 June 2025

From Lindsay Wright, Rangiora, New Zealand

The impact of microplastics on animal brains – and probably human cognition – got me thinking, while I still can. While we are engineering our downfall with plastics, we may unwittingly be crafting a “solution”: minds immune to microplastics, in the form of AI. Could we also engineer our way out of this conundrum? Or perhaps someone is already working on it – unwittingly(10 May, p 38).

Issue no. 3548 published 21 June 2025

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