The symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—a neurodegenerative disease that involves loss of nerve cells that control movement—tend to emerge in adulthood. To Davide Trotti, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Thomas Jefferson University, this suggests that some unknown trigger causes a shift from a quiescent state to a biochemical storm causing neuronal death.
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