Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neuromuscular disease that affects about 130,000 people worldwide a year. The vast majority of patients are isolated cases with no known family history of the disease.
Read More » Home / Tag Archives: neuron
Tag Archives: neuron
Feed SubscriptionThe Nose Knows: How Malaria Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Targets [Slide Show]
Scientists have never fully understood how mosquitoes distinguish the smell of human breath and sweat from other odors in nature. To learn more, molecular biologist John Carlson at Yale University and colleagues relied on a mutant strain of fruit fly. Each of a series of mosquito genes that code for smell receptors was transplanted, individually, into the fruit flies, which have an "empty" smell-detecting neuron lacking smell receptors
Read More »