The digestive system of cows influences human’s vitamin B12 intake

webfull — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:38:46 +0000

Milk is the main source of vitamin B12 consumption for Canadians. A glass of cow’s milk contains about 46% of the daily-recommended dietary intake of vitamin B12 for adults. But what factors influences the concentration of B12 in a glass of milk? Turns out, what cows eat and how they digest it can impact human’s B12 intake.

Published: 8 June 2021

Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 processing gene shines new light on our understanding of rare diseases

webfull — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:16:43 +0000

Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in offspring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a new study is changing this paradigm. An international research team led by scientists at the University of Lorraine in France along with �㽶��Ƶ and the Research Institute of the �㽶��Ƶ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as cblC, that they named “epi-cblC”. They reported it in patients from Europe and the United States.

Published: 30 January 2018

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The digestive system of cows influences human’s vitamin B12 intake

Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 processing gene shines new light on our understanding of rare diseases