POSTS TAGGED AS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Modeling ALS w/Frontotemporal Dementia in a Brain Organoid

Lab-grown mini brains for neurodegenerative disease
Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge report “the development of a cerebral organoid slice model [MORE]

 A Wearable that Allows ALS Sufferers to Communicate

ALS patients communicate with a wearable sensor
From MIT’s Media Lab:  “The wearable includes a silicone film that contains four piezoelectric [MORE]

Gene Therapy for ALS

Gene therapy for ALS
While it has only been demonstrated in mice, researchers at the University of California-San Diego Medical School [MORE]

New Progress with Antisense Oligonucleotides

Reversing Ataxia in Mice
Ataxia, in its most severe form and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis share the same symptoms of life-threatening, deteriorating [MORE]

ALS, A Prion Disease?

ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure.  It afflicts about 140,000 people each year [MORE]