Sentences with phrase «fatal neurodegenerative disease»

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime risk of developing as 1 in 700.

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have made a significant advance in the understanding of the complex and fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

His research focuses on the long - term goal of designing small molecule therapeutics for prion diseases — fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by the spread of misfolded proteins across the brain.

Lagotto Storage Disease (LSD) is a severe and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease.

Survey data suggest reported cumulative pesticide exposure was associated with increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult onset, fatal neurodegenerative disease that selectively affects motor neurons.

Motor neurons also die in ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and in spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that can affect newborn infants.

The advances could make it easier to test whether new drugs can slow the fatal neurodegenerative disease.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron death and muscle atrophy, and the RNA binding protein TDP - 43 has emerged as a major molecular factor in this disease.

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that involves the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord, brainstem, and motor cortex.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects 30,000 Americans each year.

The main character of The People in the Trees is based on a real man named Carleton Gajdusek, who spent much of the 1950s in Papua New Guinea, working with a tribe called the South Foré, who were beset with a mysterious and fatal neurodegenerative disease they called «kuru,» or the shaking.

A researcher in North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine has helped to locate and identify a gene responsible for a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects American Staffordshire terriers.

Carter et al. v. Canada (Attorney General) et al. 2015 SCC 5 Civil Rights — Constitutional Law — Courts — Criminal Law — Practice Summary: Gloria Taylor was diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS).