Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Neurology / Neuroscience Immune System / Vaccines Researchers find that immune cells play unexpected role in Lou Gehrig’s disease

Cedars-Sinai research scientists have found that immune cells in the brain play a direct role in the development ofamyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, offering hope for new therapies to target the neurodegenerative disease that gradually leads to paralysis and death. The findings will appear in the journal Science on March 18, 2016. The researchers focused [...]