St. John's develops new test to measure Vit B12 absorption
Updated: Vitamin B12 deficiency arises mainly due to malabsorption Share Article AAA Researchers Anura V. Kurpad (left) and Sarita Devi from St. John’s Research Institute who have developed a new test to measure Vitamin B12 absorption. Vitamin B12 deficiency arises mainly due to malabsorption A team of researchers from St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI) has developed a new test to measure vitamin B12 absorption in humans with stable 13C isotopes. Earlier, this was possible only using the radio-isotopes-based Schilling test. This major clinical development has been published in Amer...
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