Blocking 'oh-glick-nack' may improve long-term memory
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer. Progress has been made toward finding such a blocker for the sugar — with the appropriately malicious-sounding name “oh-glick-nack.”