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 .

霍金患有als症，或肌萎缩性侧索硬化症，这种疾病把他限制坐在轮椅上，使他没有电脑语音合成器的帮助就不能说话。

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 ) .

同时，大脑解码能够帮助工程师为因衰弱性神经变性疾病（肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症als）而失去语言能力的病人，制造表达准确的便携式交流装置。

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 .

中风和脊髓损伤能迅速中断发出运动指令的大脑区域与执行指令的神经、肌肉之间的联系，而神经退化、紊乱造成的如帕金森氏症和肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症（als）尽管会延长这一过程，但后果是相同的。

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 .

只有几个人知道我的这件事情，五年前我的父亲死于als（肌萎缩侧索硬化症）这是一种致命的疾病，它慢慢吞噬人的肌肉，直至病人不能行走、讲话，甚至，呼吸。