#ALS AWARENESS #LouGehrigsDisease #PARKINSONS

Who hasn’t heard of mad cow disease? Maybe there are a lot more diseases like that than we recognize -- such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS and Huntington’s that are caused by a rogue, mis-folded piece of protein that seeds other bits of protein...

A protein produced by the central nervous system's support cells seems to play two opposing roles in protecting nerve cells from damage, an animal study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests.