Vitamin B12 /newsroom/taxonomy/term/4728/all en The digestive system of cows influences human鈥檚 vitamin B12 intake /newsroom/channels/news/digestive-system-cows-influences-humans-vitamin-b12-intake-331408 <p>Milk is the main source of vitamin B12 consumption for Canadians. A glass of cow鈥檚 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鈥檚 B12 intake.</p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:38:45 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 269349 at /newsroom Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 processing gene shines new light on our understanding of rare diseases /newsroom/channels/news/epigenetic-alteration-vitamin-b12-processing-gene-shines-new-light-our-understanding-rare-diseases-284319 <p>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 黑料不打烊 University and the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as<em> cblC</em>, that they named 鈥渆pi-<em>cblC</em>鈥. They reported it in patients from Europe and the United States.</p> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:16:41 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32909 at /newsroom David Rosenblatt /newsroom/david-rosenblatt Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22950 at /newsroom