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New hope for ALS patients after discovery at University of Malta lab

Research about the degenerative neurological disease has been going on for over a decade in Malta

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Manual workers face twice the risk of developing ALS

Manual workers face twice the risk of developing ALS

Credit: Source: Mark Zammit Cordina, Times of Malta ALS is a progressive neurological disease that attacks the nerves that interact with the body s muscles. The disease typically leads to complete paralysis of the body, robbing patients of their ability to walk, speak, eat and breathe. Researchers studied ALS patients and healthy elderly volunteers living in Malta who took part in an ongoing study aiming at identifying genetic and environmental risk factors. Malta is a sovereign microstate in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to a geographically and culturally isolated population. Recently, Maltese ALS patients were found to have a unique genetic makeup compared to their European counterparts.