Two side-by-side screenshots of webpages linked in the thread below. On the left, the article “An organ-on-a-chip model of ALS will help uncover early disease characteristics and find potential therapies” with an image of motor neurons and their axons (labeled in green) growing on a spinal cord-on-a-chip, from Cedars Sinai. On the right, the article, “Protein in the blood can help predict ALS survival and decline, play role in developing treatments” with a Shuttershock illustration of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis showing the human nervous system and the differences in muscle-nerve communication between healthy and ALS individuals.
This year, #NCATS funded researchers are making strides in #ALS research. Two studies highlight the power of clinical phenotyping, genetic assays, and human tissue-chips in developing treatments and designing clinical trials.
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