Blue M&Ms mend spinal injuries

[steelmania75]

Interesting Read from The Telegraph in the UK:

The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area - an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury.

BBG not only reduced the size of the lesion but also improved the recovery of motor skills, the rodent tests showed.


Read more at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5921266/Blue-MandMs-mend-spinal-injuries.html

[mikelgb]

1. Well I am glad I voted for it then

[David__77]

9. They took away the light brown ones - my favorite!

And they didn't put it to a vote.

I was a little kid when they put in the blue and took away light brown, and I hated it. Blue belonged in Skittles - that was my opinion. Chocolate is properly earth tone.

[mikelgb]

10. And what did the brown one cure? HMMMMM?

the did have a voting process btw

I voted by phone for blue

the other choices were like pink and purple

[David__77]

11. But there was no vote to get rid of that one...

The vote was which one to add. They didn't vote to remove the light brown one. Why couldn't they have left it in peace!? lol

[mikelgb]

12. it was made apparent at the time that the Tan m&m was being replaced

and "no change" was an option as well

here is a good article all about m&ms and the blue one in particular

http://www.sallybernstein.com/food/single-articles/blue_mm.htm

I learned that your beloved Tan actually replaced Violet way back when

[David__77]

13. Had I been able, I would have voted "no change."

Oh well... I guess I don't really care. There an intransigent part of me that hates these little changes!

[targetpractice]

14. I'm with you on that...

...The tan ones were my favorite.

[targetpractice]

2. Bright blue Smurf skin as a side effect.

I think having bright blue skin will be such a bizarre consequence for those cured of a spinal cord injury.

[TheWraith]

5. The side effect is temporary, at least in the mice. nt

[corpseratemedia]

3. remember in Slackers:

Blue food= Krishna Consciousness

must be true:think:

[orleans]

4. amazing--how did someone even think to test this?

[Deja Q]

6. They're scientists - they have blue balls by default...

:evilgrin:

[supernova]

7. At least it's a prettier blue than

than that caused by ODing on colloidal silver.

Wow, if I could just eat enough blue M&Ms, could that cure my scoliosis?!?! :rofl:

[Sanity Claws]

8. That mouse is pretty

This has to be the oddest story I've seen in a long time.