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Does the glymphatic system play a role in MND?

27 August 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesAt last year’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Perth, Australia, Professor Jeffrey Iliff talked about the glymphatic system (C1 in abstract book) – a series

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Studentship success – next steps for Matthew Nolan

11 August 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Matthew Nolan. My name is Matthew, I’m currently a post-doctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in

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Toxicity of cerebrospinal fluid in ALS/MND

7 August 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesA systematic review of existing scientific literature, performed by a team of researchers led by Dr Arpan Mehta, MRC/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellow

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The FUS with faulty mitochondria – the powerhouse of the cell

3 August 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Darija Šoltić. Originally from Croatia, I came to the UK to do my PhD in neuroscience, where I worked

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Review of evidence suggests Riluzole treatment may lead to extended survival

28 July 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recently published paper, reviewing 15 studies that investigated the effectiveness of riluzole as a treatment for MND in real-time, has suggested that the drug

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Lighting the way from MND research to the COVID-19 response

21 July 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest researcher blog post: My name is Sophie Nyberg and I am a neuroscientist currently working in the Lighthouse COVID-19 testing labs in Alderley Park,

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Emerging Gene-Targeting Therapies for SOD1-ALS

13 July 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen

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tiRNA: A Newcomer in Motor Neuron Disease

30 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Elisabeth Jirström: Hi! My name is Elisabeth Jirström and I am a PhD student at Royal College of Surgeons

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Panic at the (Cell’s) Depot

23 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Sam Bryce-Smith – sharing his research into changes in ‘post-code’ sequences of RNA, how it continues during the COVID-19

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Identifying potential new diagnostic biomarkers in the blood

17 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 6 minutesGuest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written

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