Novel Prodrug with Potential for ALS and Like Diseases Acquired by Startup, Yumanity Therapeutics

Novel Prodrug with Potential for ALS and Like Diseases Acquired by Startup, Yumanity Therapeutics

Yumanity Therapeutics has recently licensed a prodrug invented at the University of Arizona (UA), adding it to the company’s expanding platform of potential therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neurodegenerative diseases result from errors made during the building and folding processes of proteins within the cell. In 2009, UA…

Astrocyte: the Star of Motor Neuron Disease

In this video by The University of Edinburgh, watch Chen Zhao from the School of Clinical Sciences present her three minute thesis entitled “Astrocyte: the Star of Motor Neuron Disease”. Learn more about ALS here: https://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday…

A Strong Voice for MND

In this MND Australia video, “Kirsten Harley speaks about her experience living with motor neurone disease at Parliament House, Canberra, 24 February 2016.” Learn more about ALS here: https://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday…

ALS Awareness #BeyondTheBucket: Embracing June

In this Embracing Life Through Love Inc. video, get to know more about the #beyondthebucket campaign, which has the “goal to help people learn more about what ALS actually is and the effect it has on the patients and families it effects.” Learn more about ALS here: https://bit.ly/ALSNewsToday…

UC Researchers Awarded $6.3M to Explore an ALS Stem Cell Therapy Based on Astrocytes

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)’s Independent Citizens Oversight Committee has approved a $6.3 million grant to fund a research team’s work into a new human embryonic stem cell-based therapy, involving astrocytes, to rescue and restore neurons damaged as a consequence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Team members, from the University of…

7 ALS Headlines You Can’t Miss

1 – 7 Ways to Diagnose ALS Learn more about the different ways to diagnose ALS. Read full article: https://bit.ly/1UWLNAI   2 – ALS Gene Drives Disease Development Through Neuroinflammation, Researchers Find Mutations in the C9orf72 gene are the most common genetic cause leading to amyotrophic…