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ALSA-Initiated Scientific Research
This aggressive, ALS cure-directed research effort, launched in May 2000 by The ALS Association, seeks answers to key questions that must be addressed in order for better treatments and ultimately a cure for ALS to be found. This research effort complements and works in tandem with The ALS Association's Investigator-Initiated research program.
Focus of these projects includes, but is not limited to the following areas of promise:
- Human genetics - Identifying new genes involved in familial ALS
- Genomics - Using information from the DNA sequence of the human genome to aid in genetic studies, and to search for the expression of genes associated with the disease
- Animal Models: Transgenic mice, transgenic rats and Drosophila (fruit flies)
- Assay development and high throughput drug screening
- Stem cell research as potential for replacing dying neurons
- Providing important trophic factors to dying cells and Gene Therapy and Diagnostic Biomarkers
Studies Initiated in 2005
Studies Initiated in 2004
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ALS Research Overview |
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