Most people with ALS don’t have a family history of it. Still, some cases of ALS are linked to inheriting specific gene mutations. Even nonfamilial cases can be linked to sporadic gene mutations that ...

Dr. Jinsy Andrews, director of NYU Langone’s ALS Center, stopped by NY1 on Wednesday and got straight into how treatment for ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore tissues and organs damaged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renée Douville observed something weird in the brains of people who’d died of the movement disorder ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - which you may know as the disease that affected Stephen Hawking - is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive muscle weakness. A research team at ...

The APOE4 gene variant influences the spread of toxic TDP-43 protein clumps in ALS. APOE4 carriers are more likely to have ...

The Alzheimer's risk gene APOE ε4 drives the aggressive, brain-wide Type 2 subtype of ALS, causing cognitive decline.

Researchers at the ALS Center Netherlands at University Medical Center Utrecht have identified new genetic abnormalities that play a role in the development of ALS. As a result, the proportion of ...

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), offering new hope for treating the devastating ...

Researchers have found a new disease-causing mutation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a small region of Spain. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease, ...