In the article “How Nanci Ryder’s ALS Fight Sparked a Medical Breakthrough” in The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Ichida gives an update on the lab’s progress….Continue Reading Justin Ichida publishes research update in The Hollywood Reporter
Month: February 2018
The toxic relationship between ALS and frontotemporal dementia
ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative diseases with a toxic relationship, according to a new USC Stem Cell study published in Nature Medicine. In the study, Yingxiao TK Shi and Shaoyu Sebastian Lin in the laboratory of Justin Ichida describe how a mutation in a gene, called C9ORF72, leads to toxicity in nerve…Continue Reading The toxic relationship between ALS and frontotemporal dementia