The picture you see above is a real rat. It’s not a negative of a picture or photo shopped. It’s not frozen and is 100% legit which makes it all the more bizarre. But in reality, the blue skin is a great thing because its color may be the secret to avoid spinal cord injuries and paralysis, according to a new study by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Brilliant Blue G dye, which is a type of Blue Number One. Brilliant Blue G dye is a common and harmless food coloring product that you could use to color Easter eggs with. Scientists dropped weights on the rats’ backs to break their little spinal cords, injecting the Brilliant Blue G dye in their bodies. The dye turned their skins blue, but within weeks all motor functions returned to normal. The rat could walk, run, jump, have sex, whatever.
According to the study, the dye prevented inflammation of the spinal cord. It’s that simple and one of the neurologist Maiken Nedergaard, who has been working on the testing, says that they can’t find “clinical effects on the rat.”
Animal testing is always a tricky subject to alot of people but this is one of the things that they should start trying in humans as soon as possible. Better to look like a smurf than never walk again…just sayin!
Tags: blue rat, blue skin, Brilliant Blue G dye, national geographic, spinal cord cure, University of Rochester Medical Center, worldgaming
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