Shuanglin Zhang and Qiuying Sha, Michigan Tech (IMAGE)

Michigan Technological University

Shuanglin Zhang and Qiuying Sha, Michigan Tech

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Shuanglin Zhang, left, leads a team of Michigan Tech mathematicians including his wife, Qiuying Sha, right, that has isolated three genes linked to sporadic ALS. Zhang began the research four years ago, after he began showing signs of Lou Gehrig's disease himself.

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Ryan Schumacher/Michigan Technological University

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