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Submission + - The corn syrup in a soda a day can give mice bigger colon tumors (sciencemag.org)

Phoghat writes: Soda might fuel an epic video game tournament or a 5-year-old’s manic birthday party, but a startling new study has found that in tumor-prone mice, it drives something else entirely: the growth of colon cancer. Although it’s not clear that humans would react the same way as the rodents, researchers who conducted the new work say their results could help explain a recent rise in colon cancer in young adults—and might even point to ways to treat the disease.

Comment Re:I gotta wonder why (Score 1) 124

We have 2 cars, like many people, and one is a nice comfortable, boring car that holds a lot of stuff, and is very useful. The other is a toy, an old VW Beetle, converted to electric, that's faster than snot, that we use on sunny days, just for fun. If I had a self driving car, I'd replace that boring thing, and still have my toy.

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