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New Research Sheds Light on Life with Tracheostomy Ventilation

8 October 20268 October 2026 Gen

From incredible fundraising to life-changing research: the impact of Sir Kevin’s extraordinary support.

29 September 20261 October 2026 Gen
Genetics

FUS-MND: The story so far…

15 September 202615 September 2026 Kiran

Meet Beth: Introducing our new Research Engagement and Involvement Manager 

20 August 202620 August 2026 Beth

Meet Katie, the newest member of the Research Team

4 August 202626 August 2026 Katie

MND EnCouRage UK 2026: celebrating five years of supporting early career researchers

17 July 202617 July 2026 Libby
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MND stem cell study identifies TDP-43 astrocytes as not toxic to motor neurones

12 February 201311 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesFunded by the MND Association, international researchers have used stem cell technology to learn more about the relationship between motor neurones and their support cells.

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Zebrafish show that ‘connector neurons’ are the key in early stages of MND

30 January 201311 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent study by Motor Neurone Disease Association-funded researcher Dr Tennore Ramesh from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has shown that even before

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MND Association fellowships awarded to promising clinicians | 2013 | MND Association

28 January 201311 August 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo MND clinicians have been awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) /MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellowships to help advance our understanding of MND

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Progress in the MND Oxford BioMOx project

21 January 201311 August 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND Association funded researcher Dr Martin Turner at University of Oxford has identified a pattern of degeneration in the brains of people with MND that

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MND Research in 2012

21 January 201311 August 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesAt this time of year, it’s always good to look back on the previous year to see just how far we’ve really come. We’re pleased

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Season’s Greetings!

24 December 201211 August 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe thought we’d share this fantastic festive photo of (to our knowledge) the world’s first ‘gingerbread MRI scanner’, lovingly created by students at the Oxford

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Structure of C9ORF72 repeat identified by MND Association funded researchers

21 December 201211 August 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew exciting findings announced today provide the first insight into the structure and function of a repeated six letter genetic sequence in an MND gene

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A Summary of the news from the 23rd International symposium on ALS/MND

12 December 201211 August 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year we proudly organise the International Symposium on ALS/MND, and this year was a record breaker! The symposium was held in Chicago where over 900 clinicians, scientists and healthcare professionals

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Reading the stars – why are ‘astrocytes’ toxic?

11 December 201211 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn the last day of the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND in Chicago last week there was an excellent session on ‘the role of non-neuronal

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Vive la difference!

7 December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt could be easy to assume that one motor neurone is pretty much like another, but a series of presentations on Thursday clearly showed that

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