CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
International Symposium on ALS/MND, 2012
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
05 – 07 December 2012
Chicago—ALS Database Opens for Business
Data miners: Start your search engines...
Chicago—ALS Protein SOD1 Painted as Disease Template
At the 23rd annual International Symposium on ALS/MND, genetics was, as ever, a hot topic...
Chicago—ALS Clinical Trials: New Hope After Phase 3 Setbacks
Researchers, therapists, patients, and caretakers came together in Chicago, Illinois, to share a common goal of finding a cure for ALS...
Chicago—Devilish Duo: Two Mutations Add Up to Familial ALS
As if the genetic basis for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was not complicated enough, attendees at the International Symposium on ALS/MND heard another wrinkle to the story...
Chicago—Dynamic Repeats: C9ORF72 Expands and Shrinks in ALS
For years, scientists hunted for the mutation on chromosome 9 that causes ALS, and the subsequent discovery of the mysterious C9ORF72 was hardly the end of the challenge...
Chicago—RNA Inclusions Offer Therapeutic Target in ALS
ALS researchers were excited to hear progress reports from two separate collaborations pursuing antisense oligonucleotide therapy...