Youtong Huang and Greg Lemke (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Youtong Huang and Greg Lemke

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Youtong Huang (left) and Greg Lemke (right) discovered microglia use the TAM system to find and kill nerve cells in the spinal cords of mice with late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in turn speeding up death.

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