Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
(ALS is Motor Neurone disease)
Here?s how this is supposed to work: Things happen and science explains why.
But sometimes things happen that science can?t explain. And serendipity leads the way.
It?s when someone like Dallas scientist Tony Wood, struck with a fatal disease, finds himself unwittingly offering hope for his own despair.
For years, Wood put his tinkering, connect-the-dots mind to work for companies like Texas Instruments, filing dozens of patents and focusing on improving conditions for the less fortunate.
Fifteen years ago, he co-created technology to help grow plants in water that more recently has shown surprising, if mysterious, promise in treatment of neuro-inflammatory diseases such as muscular dystrophy, Parkinson?s and asthma.
Last year, safety studies were being conducted to pave the way for medical use of his device when Wood found himself struggling to shuffle cards or use the TV remote. Within months, he found he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig?s disease.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/comm...n-experiment-in-testing-tech-to-fight-als.ece
Here?s how this is supposed to work: Things happen and science explains why.
But sometimes things happen that science can?t explain. And serendipity leads the way.
It?s when someone like Dallas scientist Tony Wood, struck with a fatal disease, finds himself unwittingly offering hope for his own despair.
For years, Wood put his tinkering, connect-the-dots mind to work for companies like Texas Instruments, filing dozens of patents and focusing on improving conditions for the less fortunate.
Fifteen years ago, he co-created technology to help grow plants in water that more recently has shown surprising, if mysterious, promise in treatment of neuro-inflammatory diseases such as muscular dystrophy, Parkinson?s and asthma.
Last year, safety studies were being conducted to pave the way for medical use of his device when Wood found himself struggling to shuffle cards or use the TV remote. Within months, he found he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig?s disease.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/comm...n-experiment-in-testing-tech-to-fight-als.ece