ALS Association Doubles Funds After Last Years’ Ice Bucket Challenge
People who participated in last year’s Ice Bucket Challenge have helped to make a difference in the lives of…
Articles by Margarida Azevedo, MSc
Chaperone Therapeutics Partners With ALS Therapy Development Institute for ALS Research
The ALS Therapy Development Institute has just signed a research partnership with Chaperone Therapeutics, Inc., a company that specializes in treatments…
Penn State Professor Awarded $240,000 Grant by ALS Society for Nutrition-Based Solution
One of the country’s most accomplished professors of neurosurgery, neural and behavioral sciences and pediatrics at Penn State College of…
Men Exposed to Formaldehyde Have Increased Risk Of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mortality
In a recent study published in Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, a team of researchers found that men working…
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Makes a Comeback This August 2015
This month, the disease awareness campaign that took the internet and Hollywood by storm is making a comeback. Thanks to…
UMMS Researchers Make Progress in ALS Research
It has already been a year since the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took the internet by storm, causing countless American…
Neuralstem Wins Patent Infringment Case on Stem Cell Technology
Biopharmaceutical company, Neuralstem, Inc. has just announced the US District Court in Maryland has decided to dismiss StemCell, Inc.’s previously…
Differences Among ALS Patients Might Be The Key to Novel Therapies
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that involves the death of neurons that activate voluntary muscles. These muscles are called skeletal…
ALS Association Awards Cytokinetics $1.5 Million for Biomarker Research
Cytokinetics, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class muscle activators as potential treatments for debilitating diseases,…
Stanford University Researchers Identify Neurons That Control Muscle Movement in ALS
In a recent study published in the journal eLife, a team of researchers at Stanford University was…