There are some new research articles about the effect of "touch with intent" on healing. For example, in a study by T. Bunnell, “The effect of ‘healing with intent’ on pepsin enzyme activity” – it was shown that the rate of breakdown of egg albumin by a 1 percent pepsin solution was measured across 20 separate trials. This assessment method was chosen to eliminate the possibility of a placebo effect. The reaction rate of samples “healed with intent” was compared to “unhealed” controls. The samples “healed by intent” demonstrated significantly greater reaction rates than the controls.