Monday 1 October 2012

Lou Gehrig's Disease Linked With Spinal Muscular Atrophy By Shared Pathways

A long hunch that two fatal diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), might somehow be linked was in the mind of researchers of motor neuron diseases. A new study confirms that this link exists. "Our study is the first to link the two diseases on a molecular level in human cells," said Robin Reed, Harvard Medical School professor of cell biology and lead investigator of the study. The results will be published ...

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