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University of Wisconsin researchers report progress in fight against Lou Gehrig’s

In what researchers hail as promising news in the quest to slow the deadly progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, popularly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been able to prolong the lives of afflicted mice by equipping them with an extra gene that prompts production of a substance that temporarily blocks the disease.