My Ecology professor was a great mentor, leader and hilarious guy. He was super inspirational and taught us that nature was something to marvel at, and always informed us it was our responsibility to take care of it. He grew up a farm-hand in the midwest. And likely developed ALS later in life due to pesticide exposure bioaccumulation. [1]
This is an amazing breakthrough though. Stabilizing the SOD1 could potentially pave the way for preventing ALS in its early stages. Would this reversal of protein clumping help patients who have been exposed to pesticides or had head injuries that lead into ALS?
Also, Please donate to ALS research if you can. [2]
[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/pesticide-exposure-...