Friday, August 14, 2015

1 year later, the Ice Bucket Challenge funds this breakthrough in ALS research.

1 year later, the Ice Bucket Challenge funds this breakthrough in ALS research.: "During a reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, ALS researcher Jonathan Ling unveiled a major breakthrough in his work.
Ling wanted to do an "Ask Me Anything" to debunk some of the negative things being said by skeptics about the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge.
"I mainly wanted to do this ["Ask Me Anything"] because I remember reading a lot of stories about people complaining that the ice bucket challenge was a waste and that scientists weren't using the money to do research, etc. I assure you that this is absolutely false," Ling writes.
"All of your donations have been amazingly helpful and we have been working tirelessly to find a cure. With the amount of money that the ice bucket challenge raised, I feel that there's a lot of hope and optimism now for real, meaningful therapies."
So what's the big breakthrough? Well, it has to do with protein — or rather, one specific protein.
Ling's research focuses on TDP-43, a protein in cells that's he's been able to link to ALS."



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