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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

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Jamie Heywood at the Drug Information Association's 50th anniversary meeting in June, where PatientsLikeMe received the President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Health.

Icing ALS: MIT family reshapes research models

Professor John Heywood SM ’62, PhD ’65 and his two sons, Jamie ‘91 and Ben ’93, have used MIT thinking — in particular, systems dynamics and manufacturing management — to transform research models after losing a family member to ALS.

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Joel Dawson, associate professor of electrical engineering

A new way to measure muscle

MIT engineer Joel Dawson and colleagues built a handheld probe that could help doctors monitor muscle atrophy in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease and similar ailments.

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