#Ice Bucket Challenge

I enrolled at Boston College a couple of years after Matt Ryan had managed to make the Eagles relevant for the first time since Doug Flutie chucked his legendary Hail Mary downfield to beat Miami in 1984, but with the exception of the hockey team that won a couple of national championships while I

Source: Good News Network It has been several years since Pat Quinn was first diagnosed with ALS, a devastating neurodegenerative disease that causes the body to progressively lose all motor function. Instead of becoming resigned to his life with the disease, however, Quinn became an outspoken

The Ice Bucket Challenge was most successful guerilla/viral fundraising campaign in U.S. history with more than 1 in 6 people in America participating in some way or another. The ALS Association received over $100 million in donations to fund research combatting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka

Remember the ice bucket challenge? Well, guess what? The charity fundraiser condemned by many as “slacktivism” has just funded a major breakthrough in ALS research. The University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Project MinE has just identified the gene that is responsible for ALS (Amyotrophic

Here’s some great news today. Thanks in large part to money raised two years ago by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, scientists with the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Project MinE have identified the gene that is responsible for ALS. “The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge enabled us to secure