Common Food Dye May Hold Promise In Treating Spinal Cord Injury

A common food additive that gives M&Ms and Gatorade their blue tint may offer promise for preventing the additional -- and serious -- secondary damage that immediately follows a traumatic injury to the spinal cord. In the study, researchers report that the compound Brilliant Blue G stops the cascade of molecular events that cause damage to the spinal cord in the hours following an injury.

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