Last Christmas I was playing hockey. Now I need help to stand up. John Hamm, diagnosed with ALS in 2014 One of John Hamm’s favourite holiday traditions is playing pond hockey with his three kids. But this year, he won’t be strapping on skates. This holiday season, John’s wife Cathy will bundle him up in […]
Archive for 2015
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New bona fide ALS gene discovered by international group of researchers
A large consortium of researchers from six countries have definitively identified a new ALS gene called TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) by performing a rigorous study that involved sequencing of more than 2800 people with ALS compared with more than 6000 control samples. Canadian researcher Dr. Guy Rouleau, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and his […]
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New bona fide ALS gene discovered by international group of researchers
A large consortium of researchers from six countries have definitively identified a new ALS gene called TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) by performing a rigorous study that involved sequencing of more than 2800 people with ALS compared with more than 6000 control samples. Canadian researcher Dr. Guy Rouleau, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and his […]