Unlikely protein implicated in mouse study using ALS patients' spinal fluid - STAT

A new mouse study suggests that filtering a particular protein out of cerebrospinal fluid could alleviate symptoms of sporadic ALS.

It was a shot in the dark or at best, a dimly lit room: injecting a mouse with a little bit of spinal cord fluid from someone with the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Then… [+7353 chars]

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