Ice Bucket Challenge Leads To ALS Breakthrough

The Ice Bucket Challenge was a phenomenon in the summer of 2014 and saw celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Lewis Hamilton, Justin Timberlake, Bill Gates and Tom Cruise getting in on the act. The ALS Association raised more than $100m (£76m) and contributed $1m to Project MinE - an international study to sequence the genomes of at least 15,000 people with ALS. "The discovery of NEK1 highlights the value of 'big data' in ALS research," said Lucie Bruijn, chief scientist for the ALS Associa