Fleshmb Ice Bucket Challenge has helped investigate disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Metro Newspaper Website

Flashmob Ice Bucket Challenge has allowed the organizers of the action to succeed – scientists who were transferred money for research, were able to detect NEK1 gene that may provoke the development of disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which suffer from a theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and guitarist Jason Becker . These two men, by the way, the only carriers of the disease, who eventually stabilized condition.

According to the BBC, for the action organizers managed to collect 115 million dollars. Participants of the flash mob were to overturn the bucket or other container with water and ice, or donate a hundred dollars. This action is very quickly sold on the web in 2014. It was attended by many celebrities. More than 17 million people have downloaded the video on Facebook.

The funds collected were sent to the six research institutes.

More than 80 researchers from 11 countries were looking for genes that cause ALS disease in family members in which there are people who suffer from the disease

“to find the gene was only because the experts at the disposal was a large number of available models of ALS,” -. Lucy says Bruidzhn of the ALS Association

Finding the gene can now allow scientists to explore gene therapy, which may lead to a cure of the disease.