{"id":139914,"date":"2015-08-23T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/princessxbilbo-webofgoodnews-ice-bucket\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:03:37","slug":"princessxbilbo-webofgoodnews-ice-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/princessxbilbo-webofgoodnews-ice-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-139914 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/princessxbilbo-webofgoodnews-ice-bucket\/attachment\/139915\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_ntflxxbgqj1s8aoo3o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_ntflxxbgqj1s8aoo3o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_ntflxxbgqj1s8aoo3o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/princessxbilbo.tumblr.com\/post\/127259188487\" target=\"_blank\">princessxbilbo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/webofgoodnews.tumblr.com\/post\/127241635484\" target=\"_blank\">webofgoodnews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33994290\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Ice bucket challenge helped spur ALS discovery, scientists say<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><i>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/349\/6248\/650.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published by Johns Hopkins researchers in Science journal last week credits the Ice Bucket Challenge with helping them to unravel the mystery behind a protein called TDP-43, which in more than 90% of ALS cases is dysfunctional.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cFor the past decade we\u2019ve been trying to figure out exactly what it is doing, and now I think we have finally figured it out,\u201d Jonathan Ling, of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ea4l_Wo-vcA\" target=\"_blank\">a YouTube video <\/a>explaining the university\u2019s latest breakthrough.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best part is it can be fixed, so with any luck this could lead to the possibility of a cure or at least a slowing down of this terrible disease,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33994290\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webofgoodnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Webofgoodnews.com<\/a> \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/webofgoodnews\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who lost someone to the disease, this makes me so happy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>princessxbilbo: webofgoodnews: Ice bucket challenge helped spur ALS discovery, scientists say A new study published by Johns Hopkins researchers in Science journal last week credits the Ice Bucket Challenge with helping them to unravel the mystery behind a protein called TDP-43, which in more than 90% of ALS cases is dysfunctional. \u201cFor the past decade &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/princessxbilbo-webofgoodnews-ice-bucket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16187,10980,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139916,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139914\/revisions\/139916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}