<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ALS Headlines]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/</link><description><![CDATA[ALS Headlines from the Packard Center]]></description><copyright><![CDATA[2010 by the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins]]></copyright><managingEditor><![CDATA[editor@packardcenter.org]]></managingEditor><webmaster><![CDATA[webmaster@packardcenter.org]]></webmaster><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:44:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SiteExecutive v4.1</generator><item><title><![CDATA[3-D Hand Movement Reconstructed Using Brain Signals]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_03_08.html</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way. This finding uses a technique that may open new doors for portable brain-computer interface systems.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_03_08.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:43:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Induced Neural Stem Cells: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_02_16</link><description><![CDATA[The great promise of induced pluripotent stem cells is that the all-purpose cells seem capable of performing all the same tricks as embryonic stem cells, but without the controversy.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_02_16</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:24:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Class of Brain-Protecting Drugs Emerging]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_02_02.html</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brain's own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_02_02.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:03:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[First U.S. stem cells transplanted into spinal cord]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_21_cnn.html</link><description><![CDATA[Doctors injected stem cells from 8-week-old fetal tissue into the spine of a man in his early 60s who has advanced ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_21_cnn.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:37:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Role of Key Protein in ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia Identified]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_10_15_sd.html</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified the reason a key protein plays a major role in two neurodegenerative diseases.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_10_15_sd.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:20:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New ALS Drug Slips Through Telling Phase II Clinical Trials]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_14.html</link><description><![CDATA[A drug already used to treat symptoms of epilepsy has potential to slow the muscle weakening that comes with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), scientists report after completing a Phase II clinical trial.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_14.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:15:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote to Raise $1 Million for ALS Research]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_15b.html</link><description><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan Chase has teamed up with Facebook
to launch a ground-breaking charitable initiative. Log on and vote for AMND from January 15 - 22nd and spread the word!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/10_01_15b.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:05:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stem Cell Research:  Implications for ALS]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/stem_cell_youtube.html</link><description><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins researchers and doctors are working together to explore the impact of stem cell technology on ALS. YouTube video features Packard Center investigators Nicholas Maragakis, MD and Hongjun Song, PhD]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/stem_cell_youtube.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:46:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Million-Dollar Charity]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/midwinter.html</link><description><![CDATA[For a tiny group of high school students on Long Island, taking a page out of these financiers’ books has made their own ALS charity, A Midwinter Night’s Dream, a million-dollar success.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/midwinter.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:57:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALS News : Voices of ALS]]></title><link>http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/voices_of_als.html</link><description><![CDATA[In The New York Times installent of Patent Voices, Karen Barrow, a producer for The New York Times, speaks with six men and women who share how their lives have changed as a result of this devastating illness.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.alscenter.org/news/rss_als_headlines/voices_of_als.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:09:22 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
