One Year After The Ice Bucket Challenge And It Helped!

Everybody and their mother did the Ice Bucket Challenge. It raised over $100 Million and ALREADY has made a huge impact.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University now think they might be on their way to finding a CURE for ALS. In a study published this month, they said they think they've figured out how a protein called TDP-43 might be responsible for the disease.

And they were able to do the study because of the Ice Bucket Challenge donations. Basically, the protein clumps up inside the neurons of people with ALS, as well as 45% of people with a type of dementia called FTD, but scientists didn't know why it mattered.

The new study found that TDP-43 is supposed to prevent cells from using the wrong genetic information to make other proteins.  But it stops working when it clumps together, so the cells malfunction and die.

It could be years before they figure out how to stop that from happening, but they think this could eventually lead to a treatment, or even a cure.(HopkinsMedicine.org)

So, thanks to you and everyone else who took part in the challenge, it really did make a difference.

And, I am not sure if you remember but for last year's food drive that Wild 104 did, because of The Old Union Hotel starting the Grocery Cart Challenge, we ended up getting a ton of food for our local pantries.