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Update on the CENTAUR trial: open label extension data

20 October 202020 October 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse. Despite such an unusual appearance such a combination could have its advantages.

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Latest news from the CENTAUR trial puts AMX0035 in the mix

4 September 202030 September 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week saw the publication of the Phase 2/3 trial results of the experimental drug cocktail, AMX0035, developed by the pharmaceutical company, Amylyx, and carried

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MND Research News Treatments

Review of evidence suggests Riluzole treatment may lead to extended survival

28 July 202028 July 2020

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 202020 July 2020

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 202028 July 2020

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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Targeting Tregs: IMODALS study paves the way for MIROCALS

7 July 20205 May 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, researchers are increasingly also interested in events happening outside the brain and spinal cord, in particular whether changes in

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Identifying potential new diagnostic biomarkers in the blood

17 June 202025 April 2022

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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Rapid development of the Telehealth in MND (TiM) Platform

9 June 20209 June 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Liam Knox: My name is Liam Knox and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined Dr

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Connecting with the next generation of MND researchers

27 May 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs you may be aware, due to the coronavirus situation we postponed our Early Career Researcher Workshop and MND Conference which was all set to

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10 years of the MND Research Blog

14 April 202010 September 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutesToday marks 10 years since the MND Association’s research blog first started, making it our ‘blogiversary’. It officially began with a welcome post from our

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