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"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." Kathleen Norris

Insmed, Genentech, and Ipsen/Tercica issue statement about IPLEX for ALS

"The best way to get approval is not to need it." Unknown

Knopp Neurosciences Completes Series B2 Financing, Raising Total Capitalization to $27 Million

"Your past may have defined who you were today, but don't let it define who you will be tomorrow." Unknown

The world of SF coming true

"A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything." Donald Kircher

Scientists gain insight into the cause and possible treatment of motor neurone disease

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace." Peggy Tabor Millin

Nerve disease expert comes to university

"You get to choose between a better life or a bitter life." Evelyn Ha

Crestor : The Super Strong Statin Drug

"Peace is not God's gift to His creatures. It is our gift to each other." Elie Wiesel

Researchers are discovering how light can manipulate the nervous system

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other spend it for you." Carl Sandberg

Insmed Gains Royalty-Free Worldwide Rights for IPLEX(TM) in Connection with Potential Expanded Access ALS Programs

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph." Pierre Corneielle

Findings May Help Slow Damage from Brain Diseases

"You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!" Amy Tan

Italians in ALS breakthrough

"A heavy burden is lifted with a phone message or letter." Unknown

Ban on primate experiments would be devastating, scientists warn

"A problem is just the distance between Expectation and Reality. Either expect less and accept the reality or expect a lot and turn it into reality." Unknown

Motor neuron sufferers to test daily lithium pill treatment in clinical trial

"Life is not a relay race; we don't have the same starting point nor do we finish at the same time. Just because someone else got there before you doesn't mean you are late." Unknown

Where Are the Cures?

"Everyone must decide at some point in their life to either become a vision of the future or a shadow of the past." John Lawson

Seeking Individuals for Participation in ALS Gene Study

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." Kin Hubbard

I have recently summarized my three decades of research at the University of North Carolina on normal, injured and diseased spinal motor neurons at the following website:

Lee McIlwain

dlmc@med.unc.edu

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." Kenneth Hildebrand

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