'Ice bucket challenge' donations helped fund ALS breakthrough

  • 8 years ago
The Ice Bucket Challenge from 2014 seems to be useful, after all.
The money that was donated, was then distributed toward researching the disease.
One of the research initiatives largely funded by the Ice Bucket Challenge was , Project MinE.
The company announced Monday that it had found a gene that is associated with the disease.
Hoping to: "eradicate this disease from the face of the earth."