by admin | Aug 21, 2015 | press
Autopsies of nearly every patient with the lethal neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and many with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), show pathologists telltale clumps of a protein called TDP-43. Now, working with mouse and human cells, Johns...
by admin | Aug 21, 2015 | press
Packard scientist Phil Wong and colleagues have published a new study in Science that outlines the normal function of the ALS-linked protein TDP-43 and spells out more clearly how loss of this function contributes to disease. Unlike other RNA-binding proteins, TDP-43...
by admin | Aug 21, 2015 | press
Money raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral last year has significantly boosted research into ALS, scientists at Johns Hopkins say. They say it has helped them to understand more about a dysfunctional protein - TDP-43 - a mystery scientists have...
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