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Are Soluble APP Fragments Markers for ALS?
September 6, 2011
Readers could be forgiven for doing a double-take at the title of a recent paper linking APP—best known for its role in Alzheimer's disease—to ALS...


National ALS Biorepository Proposed
August 31, 2011
The Center for Disease Control's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has proposed to extend the utility of their ALS Registry launched in October 2010 by establishing a national bank of ALS biospecimens in order to create a "bioregistry." The agency has announced a call for information to aid their feasibility study to assess creation of a biorepository.


New ALS Genes Implicate Protein Degradation, Endoplasmic Reticulum
August 31, 2011
Two new papers offer genetic evidence that the machinery to clean up malformed proteins is ineffective in ALS...


A Fork in the Road: Angiogenin Predisposes to ALS and Parkinson's
August 26, 2011
The angiogenin gene has been linked to ALS for years, but a study adds a new wrinkle: These variants are just as likely to cause Parkinson's disease...


Amyloid-Blocking Drug Poised for Approval for Rare Disease
August 19, 2011
Could the amyloid hypothesis have scored its first success?...






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