Aug 012009
The rat pictured above was injected with a blue food dye after having its spinal cord damaged. The dye appears to reduce the trauma of such injuries and perhaps even promotes partial healing. Take that, organic foodies.
I’m beginning to suspect that a cure for SMA will have a similar trade-off. We’ll still attract stares, but it will be because we traded our disabilities in for prehensile tails or hooves.
But will you be able to accessorize your blue ears?