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ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment - "No muscle nourishment."
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DEC 20, 2018
Health & Medicine
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease that most commonly affects the lungs, but any organ system can be involved. It is
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
DEC 19, 2018
Immunology
Researchers find that breast cancer can evade immunotherapy
Written By:
Nicholas Breehl
DEC 19, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
ALS, standing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerat
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 19, 2018
Immunology
A team of researchers reveals the effects of probiotics on patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Written By:
Nicholas Breehl
DEC 19, 2018
Space & Astronomy
When most people think about the solar system, they envision all the planets and everything in between – typically
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2018
Microbiology
Researchers have used powerful technologies to assess bacterial infection on the cellular level.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are a common cellular phenomenon in which two or more protein molecules have close,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
DEC 19, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Securing information is a difficult prospect as computers become more powerful. Engineers have turned to biology.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
As a previous practitioner of Brazillian Jui Jitsu (BJJ), I can attest that it takes a lot of endurance, motivation
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
DEC 19, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Marijuana has received a lot of attention for its medicinal and recreational purposes. But we should be mindful of the
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
DEC 18, 2018
Microbiology
Three new strains of the virus in the largest population study of the infection ever done in Africa.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Some people have a green thumb, but that doesn't mean that plants enjoy feeling it.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2018
Health & Medicine
Gender dysphoria is a distressing conflict for a person whose sexual identity is different than that assigne
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
EMBL researchers have now found a way to stop itch with light in mice. Nature Biomedical Engineering publishes their res
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
One subtype of K2P channel expressed in sensory neurons, TRESK has been reported to play a role in MA in its truncated f
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Electricity is essential to our everyday lives, but the way we generate electricity with the burning of fossil fuels isn
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
A new aquatic salamander species has been discovered, and researchers are almost entirely sure it matches the descriptio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
People have been desperate to learn more about the potential causes of autism, and researchers have been making some pro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
Microglia are in primed states when injury happens and acute exposure to opioids activates them further creating pain se
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Technology
Metamaterials have long been used by scientists for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves, like visible light, to al
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 17, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
To get a better look at fine detail, researchers found a way to make their specimen larger.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
In laboratory testing, the devices helped rats shed almost 40 percent of their body weight. Results of the study were pu
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Videos
Fifteen-year-old environmental justice activist Greta Thunberg from Sweden took the climate talks at the COP24 summit by
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
Although dinosaurs don’t walk the Earth with us today, they left behind a plethora of fossilized bones and remnant
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard