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Researchers have found a naturally occurring protein that could open a pathway for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

A research paper written by J. Gavin Daigle, a doctoral candidate at the Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Graduate Studies, was published this month in the online journal Acta *Neurpathologica.

Pur-alpha, a protein that is present in neuron cells, could hold the key to slowing neurodegeneration in patients with ALS, the paper concluded.
ALS disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that signal and control muscles.?