Ain’t it great when the interweb is used for good instead of evil?!  The whole Ice Bucket Challenge thing was as much about vanity as it was charity.  It mostly took off because people liked posting videos of themselves getting drenched in ice water on Facebook.

But it raised over $100 million, and it looks like that money might have already made a huge impact.  Researchers at Johns Hopkins University now think they might be on their way to finding a CURE for ALS or, Lou Gehrig's Disease.

In a study published this month, they say they think they've figured out how a protein called TDP-43 might be responsible for the disease and they think this could eventually lead to a treatment, or even a cure.

They were able to do the study because of the Ice Bucket Challenge donations. Great news for the medical community that benefits from well meaning people who sometimes did not fully think their challenge through. Let's laugh at their misfortune while we celebrate some success in the battle with a horrible disease.

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