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NOT PN: Blue M&M's treat spinal chord injuries

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:41
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:07 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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The same blue food dye found in M&Ms and Gatorade could be used to reduce damage caused by spine injuries, offering a better chance of recovery, according to new research. Rats injected with BBG not only regained their mobility but temporarily turned blue.

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that when they injected the compound Brilliant Blue G (BBG) into rats suffering spinal cord injuries, the rodents were able to walk again, albeit with a limp. The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.

The results of the study, published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," build on research conducted by the same center five years ago.



www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/spinal.injury.blue.dye/index.html

May I point out that this kind "blue sky" (so to speak!) discovery is NOT made by industry?

capitalism


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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:13 AM

CHRISISALL


M&M's, food of the Gods.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:06 AM

FREMDFIRMA


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The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.

Gonna have to get some of those nifty white hats for the treatment ward then, eh?

-F

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:11 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.


I can't even fathom why they would try such a treatment, but that's pretty nifty.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:41 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.

Gonna have to get some of those nifty white hats for the treatment ward then, eh?

-F



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