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The Ice Bucket Challenge Funded a Major ALS Gene Breakthrough (Newsy)
In the balmy summer of 2014 we were all hooked on the Ice Bucket Challenge, where people dared each other on social media to drench themselves buckets of ice-cold water over themselves for charity.
It was so popular that more than 17 million videos evidencing the self-torture were uploaded to Facebook and watched watched by 440 million people worldwide.
The charity in question was the ALS Association, which researches the progressive neurodegenerative disease also known as motor neurone disease (MND).
The disease is fatal, and there is currently no known cure. It attacks the nerves that control movement, meaning they eventually stop working. It kills around a third of people within a year of diagnosis, and more than half within two years.
The self-inflicted torture we participated in wasn’t in vain because it raised a whopping $114 million in total, over just eight weeks, which has helped fund six research projects in total.
It funded one study in particular – the largest ever study of inherited ALS – that has led scientists to discover a new gene that contributes to the disease. More than 80 researchers over 11 countries took part in the research.
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