Unraveling tangled origin of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 20:31
in Health & Medicine
By studying nerve cells that originated in patients with a severe neurological disease, a researcher has pinpointed an error in protein formation that could be the root of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Also called Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS causes paralysis and death. According to the ALS Association, as many as 30,000 Americans are living with ALS.