ALS, A Prion Disease?
April 8, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure. It afflicts about 140,000 people each year worldwide. For some time, researchers have suspected a mutant gene of the protein SOD 1, but a group at the University of British Columbia has found that a misfolded non-mutated SOD 1 precipitated a domino effect in destroying motor neurons—suggesting that ALS has at least some similarity to a prion disease. MORE