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.