Vitamin B12 (also known as cobalamin) is a water soluble vitamin and part of the B complex group (a group of eight vitamins that were initially thought to be the singular vitamin B).  Like many of the other vitamins the discovery of vitamin B12 was the result of research into a cure for a disease.  This time researchers were searching for a way to treat pernicious anemia (a lack of red blood cells in the body which is now known to be caused by vitamin B12 deficiency).  Up until the 1920s this condition often resulted in death.  However, in 1926 George Richards Minot and William Perry Murphy … [Read more...]