he is why scientists at the Marine Biology Lab (MBL) have recently launched the Squid Genome Project, a scientific collaboration to identify the genes of the long-finned squid - information they say will aid in the complex process of researching debilitating neurological diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Alzheimer's disease