Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – PossibleThreat Articles

Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington's disease

In clinical trials of adults with Huntington's disease (HD) the Q-Suite Motor Assessment Tool (Q-Motor) has proven to be helpful to detect and quantitate subtle motor abnormalities. With the anticipated arrival of preventive gene therapies that will most likely be administered to young children known to be carriers of the HD mutation, it is crucial to have a means to evaluate motor abilities in children that is sensitive to the child's stage of development.

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Scientists ask: How can liquid organelles in cells coexist without merging?

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genes, Genetics, Human Biology, Molecular Biology, Nature of Water, Organic Chemistry

New research may help to explain an intriguing phenomenon inside human cells: how wall-less liquid organelles are able to coexist as separate entities instead of just merging together.

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Uncovering the presynaptic distribution and profile of mitochondria

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Child Development, Human Biology, Intelligence, Nervous System, neuroscience, Personalized Medicine, Schizophrenia

Scientists have provided unprecedented insight into the presynaptic distribution and profile of mitochondria in the developing and mature calyx of Held.

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To learn English, bilingual children need robust vocabulary from parents and caregivers

October 9, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Children's Health, Infant's Health, Patient Education and Counseling, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Public Health Education, Sexual Health, Teen Health

A study examining parents' vocabulary and grammar as an influence on children's acquisition of English, finds that the quality of child-directed speech depends on the speaker's language proficiency. Children who hear a rich vocabulary acquire a rich vocabulary and children who hear a rich vocabulary in full sentences acquire the ability to put their words together in full sentences. Findings have broad implications for immigrant parents' language choices at home and for staffing practices in early care and education centers.

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How can ultrasonic brain stimulation cure brain diseases?

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Medical Devices, Nervous System, neuroscience, Parkinson's, Perception, Psychology Research

Scientists found a calcium channel expressed in astrocytes in the brain to be a highly sensitive target for LILFU-induced neuronal activity in the motor cortex, such as tail movement.

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New study challenges our understanding of premature aging

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Chronic Illness, Forensics, Genes, Healthy Aging, Human Biology, Menopause, Personalized Medicine

Disturbances in the function of mitochondrial DNA can accelerate the ageing process in ways that are different than previously thought, according to a new study. Offering a new perspective to ageing, the researchers suggest that accelerated ageing is the result of abnormal cell nucleotide levels and compromised nuclear DNA maintenance.

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How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Air Pollution, Air Quality, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Environmental Science, Pharmacology, Pollution, Today's Healthcare, Workplace Health

Could your basic acts of existence be polluting the air in the office room where you work? To find out, a team of engineers has been conducting one of the largest studies of its kind.

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How fungus-farming ants could help solve our antibiotic resistance problem

September 27, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Diseases and Conditions, Foodborne Illness, Genes, Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Today's Healthcare

For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they've successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingredients to protect their crops from other species of parasitic fungi. Now, researchers say they are looking to these ants to find new ways to stop or slow the evolution of antibiotic resistance that now presents a threat to modern medicine.

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Researchers perform thousands of mutations to understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

September 23, 2019 0 Comments Alzheimer's Research, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Chronic Illness, Diseases and Conditions, Healthy Aging, Immune System, Multiple Sclerosis Research, Nervous System

Researchers have used a technique called high-throughput mutagenesis to study Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), with unexpected results. Results showed that aggregation of TDP-43 is not harmful but actually protects cells, changing our understanding of ALS and opening the door to radically new therapeutic approaches.

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Environmental toxin produced by algae may lead to ALS

September 17, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chronic Illness, Genes, Genetics, Human Biology, Molecular Biology

A computer generated-simulation allowed researchers to see how a toxin produced by algal blooms in saltwater might cause Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).