• ‘That is my dream': Scientist who uncovered likely leading cause of MS wants to tackle ALS next

    9 days ago - By STAT

    Alberto Ascherio began his career as a young doctor treating tropical diseases in South American rainforests and parts of Africa. Over the next quarter-century, he made his way to what is now his wheelhouse: studying the links between viruses and neurodegenerative diseases.
    Perhaps none of his projects have generated as much attention as his 2022 paper , which offered strong evidence, through a 20-year study of more than 10 million people, that infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, most commonly known for causing mononucleosis, increased the likelihood of developing multiple sclerosis by...
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