New Discovery Allows Researchers to Study Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases from Beginning of life
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New Discovery Allows Researchers to Study Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases from Beginning of life

Dilated cardiomyopathy is a heart condition caused by a mutation in the RBM20 gene. This heart condition is unique because it can affect young adults. These individuals are at an…

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Scientists Have Discovered An Immune Cell That May Partially Reverse Damage Caused by ALS and MS

A series of articles recently published in FierceBiotech describe a discovery by Ohio State and Michigan University scientists. The teams have discovered an immune cell that could be tapped to…

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New Collaboration: Scribe Therapeutics and Biogen to Explore CRISPR-Related Therapies for ALS

On October 6, 2020, molecular engineering company Scribe Therapeutics announced an exciting partnership. Originally founded by molecular engineers and CRISPR inventors, Scribe Therapeutics seeks to develop in vivo genetic medicine to treat…

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FDA Accepts Priority Review NDA for Potential Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Drug
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FDA Accepts Priority Review NDA for Potential Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Drug

According to a story from globenewswire.com, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for arimoclomol. This application is for the use of the…

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Enrollment for Phase 2 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Trial is Complete
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Enrollment for Phase 2 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Trial is Complete

According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Clene Nanomedicine, Inc., has recently announced that it has completed the process of enrollment patient participants in its upcoming phase 2…

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Researchers at Nagoya University are One Step Closer to Unraveling the Tau Mystery in Neurodegenerative Diseases

According to a recent article in MedicalXpress, researchers in Japan led by Dr. Shinsuke Ishigaki and his team at Nagoya University, have identified new molecular details about tau’s activity. Alzheimer’s,…

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Preclinical Data Supports NurOwn for ALS, MS, and Alzheimer’s Disease
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Preclinical Data Supports NurOwn for ALS, MS, and Alzheimer’s Disease

  Within the last month, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. announced the publication of pre-clinical data on the NurOwn system. NurOwn technology produces autologous, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for…

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Study: Verdiperstat as a Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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Study: Verdiperstat as a Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

The HEALY ALS Platform Trial, being conducted by Biohaven Pharma, has begun enrolling patients. This study is intended to test the efficacy of three treatments on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),…

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Scientists Can Identify Schwann Cells Using Novel Bar Code Technique
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Scientists Can Identify Schwann Cells Using Novel Bar Code Technique

Scientists and researchers have long known how important glial cells are to the nervous system. Not only do these cells make up a majority of cells within the central nervous…

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New Drug Application for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Treatment Submitted Under Rolling Review
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New Drug Application for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Treatment Submitted Under Rolling Review

According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Orphazyme A/S has recently announced that it has submitted its New Drug Application (NDA) for its experimental treatment arimoclomol to the…

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Arimoclomol Receives the Fast Track Designation for the Treatment of ALS
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Arimoclomol Receives the Fast Track Designation for the Treatment of ALS

CytRx Corporation has recently received the Fast Track designation for their ALS treatment, arimoclomol. This status was also given for the treatment of Niemann-Pick disease and sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis…

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Exploring the Similar Pathology “Genetic Doppelgängers” ALS and SCA36
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Exploring the Similar Pathology “Genetic Doppelgängers” ALS and SCA36

Recently, scientists from Emory University set out to discover whether there was any pathological link between spinocerebellar ataxia type 36 (SCA36) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (ALS/FTD). Both…

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Could Biobots be the Key to Understanding ALS and other Neuromuscular Diseases?
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Could Biobots be the Key to Understanding ALS and other Neuromuscular Diseases?

  Biological robots, commonly known as biobots, mimic the actions of other organisms (e.g. jumping or swimming). Biobots are composed of artificial materials and also organic material. As published in…

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Seneca Biopharma Preparing for its Phase 3 Trial to Test NSI-566 for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Seneca Biopharma, Germantown, Md., issued a press release announcing its recent meeting with the FDA to discuss elements of a final design and protocol for a Phase 3 trial investigating…

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Study Highlights Need to Support Youth Acting as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Caregivers

A recent study, conducted my Melinda Kavanaugh from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, examined the role of children who are acting as caregivers for those diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

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Neurodegenerative-Neuromuscular Diseases and Airway Clearance Therapy
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Neurodegenerative-Neuromuscular Diseases and Airway Clearance Therapy

  Advances in medicine have been responsible for longer overall survival in patients with neurodegenerative-neuromuscular diseases. According to a recent report in RTMagazine, an increase in the number of patients…

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