Reading Time: 5 minutes Last 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 antisense oligonucleotide therapy for SOD1-ALS were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. In the same issue, a study investigating the use of microRNA in a viral vector to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, researchers are increasingly also interested in events happening outside the brain and spinal cord, in particular whether changes in the immune system might play a role in influencing the course of the disease. This is a subject we’ve covered before, with particular reference to the ongoing MIROCALS drug trial…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Guest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written by lead author, Dr Greig Joilin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex: Diagnosis of MND is currently a time-consuming process of elimination, causing patients and families prolonged stress…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guest researcher blog post written by Liam Knox: My name is Liam Knox and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined Dr Esther Hobson and Prof. Chris McDermott (consultant neurologists) on the Telehealth in Motor Neuron Disease, or ‘TiM’ for short, project at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITRaN).
Reading Time: < 1 minute As you may be aware, due to the coronavirus situation we postponed our Early Career Researcher Workshop and MND Conference which was all set to run in June. We had a fantastic response to the event, which was a two-day educational event to bring together Early Career Researchers (ECRs) investigating MND and our community.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Today 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 very own director, Dr Brian Dickie, which talked about the main purpose of the blog – to share what’s going on in the world of MND research and give you…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Due to the collaboration, hard work and partnerships with people affected by motor neurone disease (MND) who generously take part in research, new pieces of the complex MND puzzle continue to be found. These pieces can come in many forms and one such type of discovery is of the genes that cause MND – in…
