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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Explained | Motor Neurone Disease | Pathophysiology Treatment | Deborah Osei-Sarfoh

11K views · 68 reactions | Join the Project ALS family and support critical research. Chris Combs, husband, father of 3, and former pitcher for the North Carolina State Wolfpack and Pittsburgh Pirates, was diagnosed with ALS in 2016. Watch his story and donate to Project ALS research now to bring us closer to a cure. | Project ALS | Facebook

Project ALS was first to use stem cells to create limitless motor neurons, the cells that die in ALS, a major breakthrough. Now, researchers are using these stem cell models to study the disease and screen for drugs, bringing us closer than ever to medicine for people who need it so desperately. Learn more about our research and donate now: https://www.projectals.org/our-research/ | Project ALS

Christine Taylor & Ben Stiller want you to join the Don't Talk-a-Thon on May 22nd to support crucial Project ALS research. Here's how: | Project ALS

Teens can get ALS too. Help us find out why. Project ALS met with 7 mothers nationwide who lost their teenage daughters to ALS. Watch their stories. Support crucial ALS genetics research now so we can end this disease - forever. Give now: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/211906/#!/donation/checkout | Project ALS

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ALS drugs are near. Project ALS has built a Pre-Clinical Core at Columbia University, an ALS drug-testing initiative, that utilizes 20 years of research breakthroughs to create and test drugs more accurately, and deliver the most promising of them to clinical trial. Read about the Core at projectals.org/our-research and help us bring drugs to clinical trial in 2019. Give today: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/211906/#!/donation/checkout | Project ALS

Jenifer Estess was a 35-year-old New York theater and film producer who was diagnosed—out of nowhere--with ALS. Her doctors told her to max out her credit cards and eat junk food—because they had no medicine to give her for ALS, a fatal brain disease. Jenifer made another choice. With her sisters, family and friends, she founded the non-profit Project ALS. Jenifer’s vision was to unite competing scientists to work together toward the first effective treatments. Project ALS built the world’s firs