# New method for studying ALS more effectively

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**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/new-method-for-studying-als-more-effectively/1329 "2018-12-12T16:57:38Z")\
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> **[New method for studying ALS more effectively](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212104601.htm)**
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> The neurodegenerative disease ALS causes motor neuron death and paralysis. However, long before the cells die, they lose contact with the muscles as their axons atrophy. Researchers have now devised a new method that radically improves the ability to...

  
The neurodegenerative disease ALS causes motor neuron death and paralysis. However, long before the cells die, they lose contact with the muscles as their axons atrophy. Researchers have now devised a new method that radically improves the ability to study axons and thus to better understand the pathological development of ALS.