ALS – The Loh Down On Science

Neural Mic Drop

August 4, 2025 Veronica Woo

Mic drop!!! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine you couldn’t speak. That’s life for people with ALS and dysarthria – disorders that impair muscular control and speech. Now, enter brain computer interfaces or BCIs. They bypass damaged brain areas and decode neural activity to

Syrup Cure

July 19, 2019 Loh Down Staff

Is the cure for ALS hiding in our pancakes? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying: Maybe so! If you’re a worm that is. ALS – Lou Gehrig’s disease – is a motor neuron disease that causes irreversible damage to nerve cells. To study ALS,