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be found in a paper published in the 19 December online issue of the journal Science
Translational Medicine.
Co-lead author of the paper Yang (Ted) Teng is a Harvard Medical School (HMS) associate
professor of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, in the
US. He and his colleagues believe the key to treating ALS lies in targeting new
mechanisms uncovered by studies into neural stem cells.
Their review takes in a decade of research from several institutions. As well as Brigham and
Women's, it covers results from studies conducted at Johns Hopkins University, the VA
Boston Healthcare System, Boston Children's Hospital, Sanford-Burnham Medical
Research Institute, UMass Medical School, SUNY-Syracuse, and Columbia University.
Teng says in an HMS statement released last week:
"This significant research will help us better understand the mechanisms underlying motor
neuron diseases."