Ice Bucket Challenge Leads to Breakthrough in ALS Research

 

This is awesome.

 

It is often easy to dismiss viral charity campaigns as “slacktivism”, which lacks in real-world impact (we never did catch the warlord Joseph Kony, after all) but a breakthrough discovery bankrolled by 2014’s ALS ice bucket challenge may give the lie to that cynicism.

 

The ice bucket challenge was a phenomenon in the summer of 2014 in which people dunked a bucket of iced water over their heads in order to solicit donations before nominating others to do the same.

 

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One of these was Project MinE, a large data-driven initiative funded by the ALS Association through ice bucket challenge donations, as well as donations from the organization’s Georgia and New York chapters. The project’s researchers announced on Monday that they have identified a new gene associated with the disease, which experts say could lead to new treatment possibilities.

Well that's definitely some nice follow-up and refreshing news.

 

I was actually just thinking about that Ice Bucket Challenge the other day when I saw my cousin doing push ups for some new challenge floating around.

Well that's definitely some nice follow-up and refreshing news.

 

I was actually just thinking about that Ice Bucket Challenge the other day when I saw my cousin doing push ups for some new challenge floating around.

 

 

I did a push up challenge the other day. I ate 8 of them in a hour.

 

 

Great news on the research results.

Ice Bucket Challenge Leads to Breakthrough in ALS Research

 

This is awesome.

 

It is often easy to dismiss viral charity campaigns as “slacktivism”, which lacks in real-world impact (we never did catch the warlord Joseph Kony, after all) but a breakthrough discovery bankrolled by 2014’s ALS ice bucket challenge may give the lie to that cynicism.

 

The ice bucket challenge was a phenomenon in the summer of 2014 in which people dunked a bucket of iced water over their heads in order to solicit donations before nominating others to do the same.

 

...

 

One of these was Project MinE, a large data-driven initiative funded by the ALS Association through ice bucket challenge donations, as well as donations from the organization’s Georgia and New York chapters. The project’s researchers announced on Monday that they have identified a new gene associated with the disease, which experts say could lead to new treatment possibilities.

Outstanding.