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An international team of more than 30 scientists, led by Associate Professor of Neurology Robert H. Brown Jr, reports today the discovery of an altered gene likely responsible for 40-60 percent of familial, or hereditary, cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The disease's familiar name refers to the...
ALS is a progressive and fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Patients are usually stricken between the ages of 40 and 70. Their motor neurons begin to die and they lose control over their muscles. Life expectancy once symptoms are observed is usually between just two and five...
Only five to 10 percent of ALS cases are thought to be hereditary, a condition known as familial ALS, but today's finding proposes a model of damage for all cases of the disease. There is no clinical difference between familial ALS patients and the other 90 percent of ALS...
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And Hilton Als, in perhaps the most disturbing and challenging essay included here, contests the very existence of any book (such as this one) which defines writers by color. He contemptuously dismisses the notions of "otherness" and "difference" that govern so much thought today, calling them "very stupid words." His...