{"id":63262,"date":"2025-10-06T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63262\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:24:10","slug":"new-als-research-backs-trailblazers-focus-on-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63262\/","title":{"rendered":"New ALS Research Backs Trailblazer&#8217;s Focus on Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Hi, it\u2019s Jason in Melbourne. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09588-6\" title=\"Paper: Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">study<\/a> in Nature last week shows the immune system itself may be fueling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/als\/abouttheregistrymain\/about-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als.html\" title=\"CDC: About Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis<\/a>, or ALS \u2014 a discovery that validates the life\u2019s work of one of the disease\u2019s longest-serving doctors. Before I get into that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.houstonmethodist.org\/en\/persons\/stanley-h-appel\" title=\"Stanley Appel profile on Houston Methodist Scholars website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Stanley Appel<\/a> opened one of the US\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.als.org\/blog\/legacy-hope-dr-stanley-appels-personal-journey-als-research-and-care\" title=\"ALS Association blog post on Appel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">ALS clinics<\/a> in Houston in 1982, new patients typically faced a long slog of appointments and uncertainty. Appel pulled everyone into the same room \u2014 doctors, therapists, respiratory care \u2014 so they could get answers and support in a day, not weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, it\u2019s Jason in Melbourne. A study in Nature last week shows the immune system itself may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72,103,9817,61,15706,60,43486,24785,18644,33606,29293,18647,4269,82,131,24297],"class_list":["post-63262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-business","tag-health","tag-houston","tag-ie","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-melbourne","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-prognosis","tag-regulation","tag-science","tag-stocks","tag-telemedicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}