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Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine

Posted by timothy on from the waste-not-want-not dept.

schliz writes "Scientists from the University of York have come up with a new recycling technique that extracts PVA from used LCD panels to create a 'a bioactive sponge.' The technique could allow recovered PVA to be used in pills, wound dressings and tissue scaffolds that aid human tissue regeneration. It could also keep waste LCD screens from incineration or landfill altogether."

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  1. So, which do you want? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    The red pill, the blue pill...or the green pill?

    1. Re:So, which do you want? by Aphoxema · · Score: 4, Funny

      Does that mean I can either keep living the dream, see how far the rabbit whole goes, or take the placebo?

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      "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
  2. Re:I need to get my eyes checked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It already is, man...

  3. Good thing I collect laptop screens.... by jameskojiro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thing I collect laptop screens because when the Rapture comes and Jesus shows up and inflicts a mortal wound on me I can shove a shard of a LCD screen into my wound and it will keep me alive long enough to ask his forgiveness.

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    Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...