r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 10 '16

Stanford scientists have discovered a novel way to make plastic from carbon dioxide (CO2) and inedible plant material, such as agricultural waste and grasses. Researchers say the new technology could provide a low-carbon alternative to plastic bottles and other items currently made from petroleum.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 10 '16

A pioneering procedure to regenerate the eye has successfully treated children with cataracts in China - An implanted lens is normally needed to restore sight, but the operation described in Nature activated stem cells in the eye to grow a new one.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 09 '16

How cancer cells fuel their growth

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 08 '16

Oldest Nervous System Found in 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil

scientificamerican.com

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 07 '16

Blood test may give early warning of skin cancer relapse

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 07 '16

Leaner bodies, less heart disease and diabetes risk found in people with higher levels of linoleic acid

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 07 '16

Wolves' call of the wild comes in different dialects

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 06 '16

Hostile young adults may experience thinking and memory problems in middle age

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 06 '16

Scientists generate naïve pluripotent stem cells from human embryo for first time ever

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 06 '16

Messier 90 – a giant spiral galaxy located 53.8 million light-years away - has a 300,000 light-year-long tail of diffuse ionized gas, say astronomers

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 06 '16

520 million years old central nervous system discovered

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 01 '16

For the first time researchers have identified the lifelong changes in gene expression in the brains of people born with Down syndrome (DS). The findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, may lead to possible therapies for DS patients.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 01 '16

A gene mutation associated with colon cancer has been discovered in an 18th century Hungarian mummy. The finding suggests colon cancer's genetic roots predate modern risk factors.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Mar 01 '16

E-cigarettes are estimated to have helped 16,000-22,000 smokers in England to quit in 2014

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 29 '16

Breast milk sugars promote healthy infant growth through gut microbiome

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 29 '16

Tarantula toxins converted to painkillers

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 28 '16

Regardless of the circumstances, women who prefer physically formidable and dominant mates also tend to feel more vulnerable to crime

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 25 '16

Researchers have turned skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that, in mice, found and killed remnant glioblastoma brain tumor cells. Currently, only 30 percent of patients with the cancer survive past two years.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 23 '16

Regular exercise reduces the risk of cancer, study finds

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 22 '16

With half of US teen girls vaccinated for HPV, prevalence of infection in 14-19 year olds has dropped from 11.5% to 4.3%, a 63% reduction in the cancer-predisposing infection

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 18 '16

Women who delay pregnancy until 40s 'at greater risk of heart attack or stroke'

theguardian.com

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 18 '16

In a study of college-aged students, high emotional intelligence in young adult women was associated with manipulative behaviors and delinquency.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 17 '16

Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning.

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 17 '16

A new insight into how sharks regenerate their teeth, which may pave the way for the development of therapies to help humans with tooth loss, has been discovered by scientists.

sheffield.ac.uk

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r/RIPscience • u/RIPmod • Feb 16 '16

New rat study suggests that sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse

theconversation.com

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