Labs are using such cells to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , parkinson 's disease , huntington 's disease , and even autism .
实验室通过这些细胞来研究肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化、帕金森氏症、亨廷顿氏病，甚至自闭症。
Hawking has als , or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , which has confined him to a wheelchair and leaves him unable to speak without the help of a computerized voice synthesizer .
Brain decoding may also help engineers develop accurate and portable communication devices for people who have lost the ability to speak due to debilitating neurodegenerative diseases , such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) .
Strokes and spinal cord injuries can quickly disconnect parts of the brain that initiate movement with the nerves and muscles that execute it , and neurodegenerative disorders such as parkinson 's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) draw the process out to the same effect .
Only a handful of people know this about me , but five years ago , my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or als . This is a fatal disease that literally eats away at a person 's muscles until they cannot walk , talk or even breathe .
