Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut

Study could eventually lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative conditionScientists have found tantalising clues that the devastating condition motor neurone disease may be linked to changes in microbes that live in the gut.Studies in mice revealed that animals bred to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of the disease that affectedthe cosmologist Stephen Hawking, improved and lived longer when they were given an organism calledAkkermansia muciniphila.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 22, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Motor neurone disease Medical research Science Society Microbiology Source Type: news