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Year: 2010

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Happy New Year – Quiz answers

31 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes1.What percentage of our genes do we share with a chimp? 98 2.What percentage of our genes do we share with a mouse? 90 3.Our

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Christmas tradition – a quiz!

24 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the tradition of newspaper Christmas quizzes or bumper crossword puzzles, I had the bright idea that we could publish something similar here. In the

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Models of MND Research we fund Symposium

One week on – Reflections on my first experience of the International Symposium on ALS/MND

21 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesOur recent blog articles describe lots of fascinating science and the progress in the care and treatment of MND/ALS that was presented at the symposium. 

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Research grants round in full swing!

20 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith all the excitement of the symposium in Orlando, it is still business as usual for the next research grants round.  As some of you

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Symposium

Classifying MND

13 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs the symposium draws to a close, Prof Nigel Leigh gives the final scheduled talk. Prof Leigh is an eminent researcher and clinician and is arguably

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The closing session: what’s happening in Chromosome 9

13 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes After three days of deep discussion and debate among researchers clinicians and health and social care professionals, the final talks of the symposium begin. The

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Welcome to a new player in identifying a cause of MND

13 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesMND isn’t just about motor neurones going wrong in an otherwise perfectly functioning nervous system. A group of cells called glia, which surround motor neurones

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Clinical Trials News Symposium

Clinical trials – design and results

12 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, two sessions are related to clinical trials. The first, concerns the planning and design of clinical trials. The second is the results of

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Inspired by viruses

12 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI attended a fantastic talk this morning in the session on ‘Translational Strategies’. This session is all about moving laboratory ideas for new treatments for

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Carer needs, supporting diagnosis and debating physician assisted suicide

12 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesCarers play a vital role in the lives of people living with MND, so important in fact that at this year’s symposium a session addressed the

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