Blue Food Dye Used in M&M's May Treat Spinal Cord InjuriesSo, if you tweak your back, grab a handful of blue M&Ms. Stay away from the green ones, though, I hear they have a different effect altogether.
A common and safe blue food dye might provide the best treatment available so far for spinal cord injuries, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Tests in rats showed the dye, called brilliant blue G, a close relative of the common food dye Blue no. 1, crossed into the spinal fluid and helped block inflammation, Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester Medical Center and colleagues reported.
"We have no effective treatment now for patients who have an acute spinal cord injury," Dr. Steven Goldman, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
"Our hope is that this work will lead to a practical, safe agent that can be given to patients shortly after injury, for the purpose of decreasing the secondary damage that we have to otherwise expect."
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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They may become a medicine as well as a tasty snack:
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hmmm... is this what O was referring to when he spoke of the red pills and the blue pills??
I always wonder about things like this...what on earth prompted them to study it in the first place?!
Best wishes,
Laura
Money, Laura, Money. They get paid for these things!
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