Discovery provides therapeutic target for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have found that the ability of a protein made by a gene called FUS to bind to RNA is essential to the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This discovery identifies a possible therapeutic target for the fatal neurological disease.

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