A More Precise ALS Model (IMAGE)

Brown University

A More Precise ALS Model

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Using selectively engineered C. elegans -- transparent worms about as long as a pinhead -- Anne Hart, a professor of neuroscience at Brown University, discovered that two different kinds of motor neurons that die in people with ALS may die in different ways.

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Hart Lab/Brown University

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