Clinical Research

The Sweetness Of The Pepsi Throwback Challenge

Princeton researchers found that high-fructose corn syrup-- the basic sweetener is sodas and just about everything-- causes more weight gain that sugar.  Calorie for calorie, rats got fatter on the corn syrup than on sugar. And at the same time, PepsiCo ha ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Mar 26 2010 - 12:22pm

Prosopoagnosia- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Prosopagnosia or prosopagnosia, is a perceptual deficit acquired or congenital central nervous system that prevents individuals who are affected to properly recognize people's faces, it is determined by a damaged area of the brain to the task, turn f ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 30 2010 - 2:12pm

Eat Candy To Lower Blood Pressure, Prevent Heart Disease, Study Says

Just one small square of chocolate a day can lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart disease, says a new study published online today in the European Heart Journal. The authors of the study believe that flavanols in cocoa may be the reason ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2010 - 11:17am

Dr. Pepper Throwdown

We defied expectations in last week's Pepsi Throwback Challenge. We found the unusual result that our bodies, against our wills, preferred high fructose corn syrup to ordinary sugar.  Our comparison of Pepsi[TM] soda products, particularly their corn ...

Article - Project Calliope - Apr 2 2010 - 2:11pm

Xenon For Baby

Brain damage at birth is a horrible thing to happen to a baby.  Brain cells are very vulnerable to hypoxic / ischemic damage (the latter term referring to restricted blood supply), which makes birth a dangerous time.  Therefore, it was cheering to read a B ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 14 2010 - 9:56am

Beetroot Juice for Stamina!

I saw it first on The One Show!   Beetroot juice boosts stamina, new study shows, as the University of Exeter says in a press release, the gist of which is as follows:   ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 10 2010 - 3:03am

Immigration and Autism

Autism link with migrant parents, study finds A study carried out at St George's Hospital, London, suggests that the incidence of Autism in children of parents who have moved to Britain from outside Europe is much higher.  However, this is not found ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 21 2010 - 2:15am

New Findings Make Use Of Stem Cells A Little More Complicated

A previously unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered.  The results improve our understanding of how stem cells work, crucial for our ability to use stem ce ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2010 - 11:08am

Pride, Prejudice And Darcin- Why Females Like Urine

The pheromone that attracts female mice to the odor of a particular male has been identified and named ‘darcin’ by researchers writing in BMC Biology (they say they named it after Darcy from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”- for those who have not read ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2010 - 3:26pm

Urine Test for Autism Not Really Likely Despite Media Reports

Yap, Angley, Veselkov, Holmes, Lindon, and Nicholson (2010) have ignited a lightning storm of interest with their theoretical urine test for autism that could prevent autism, at least according to study author Nicholson, speaking to Richard Alleyne of the ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 4 2010 - 2:42pm