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This link is to a Yahoo News story, so it might be as fake as many of their stores, but interesting none the less. Thought it does say it's from ABC News.
Funds From The 'Ice Bucket Challenge' Directly Led To A Major ALS Breakthrough
At the time, it may have just seemed like a fun thing all of the kids in the neighborhood were doing to stay cool during the summer or a weird bit that people were adding to their wedding receptions and graduation photos. Despite the kitschy viral madness that was the “Ice Bucket Challenge” way back in 2014, the funds that the challenge raised have now been directly linked to a major breakthrough in ALS research. If you recall, for every video or picture people posted of either themselves or their family doing the challenge, they werealso meant to donate any amount of money to the ALS Association.
The ALS Association then donated $1 million of the total amount raised to the UMass Medical School’s Project MinE, which has now discovered a gene that could offer treatments or further clues about how to target a currently untreatable and incurable disease that is newly diagnosed in about 5,000 people every year in the United States alone.
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Funds From The 'Ice Bucket Challenge' Directly Led To A Major ALS Breakthrough
At the time, it may have just seemed like a fun thing all of the kids in the neighborhood were doing to stay cool during the summer or a weird bit that people were adding to their wedding receptions and graduation photos. Despite the kitschy viral madness that was the “Ice Bucket Challenge” way back in 2014, the funds that the challenge raised have now been directly linked to a major breakthrough in ALS research. If you recall, for every video or picture people posted of either themselves or their family doing the challenge, they werealso meant to donate any amount of money to the ALS Association.
The ALS Association then donated $1 million of the total amount raised to the UMass Medical School’s Project MinE, which has now discovered a gene that could offer treatments or further clues about how to target a currently untreatable and incurable disease that is newly diagnosed in about 5,000 people every year in the United States alone.
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