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Month: March 2011

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Clinical Trials Get involved with research MND Research Treatments

Dexpramipexole clinical trial enrols first participant

31 March 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re aware that thing’s may seem quiet in terms of ‘big’ MND research moments… almost too quiet… Well, today, the pharmaceutical companies Biogen Idec and Knopp Biosciences announced

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How do we fund research?

31 March 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs we’ve mentioned in previous posts, our current research grants round is our biggest yet with 19 full applications being reviewed by our research advisory

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Completing our peer review audit for the AMRC

23 March 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesForm filling is tedious. For those of us of a certain age (I’m not saying any more!) online form filling is even more stressful. So recently,

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MND Research Treatments Unproven treatments

Blue-green algae called Spirulina investigated by ALSUntangled

9 March 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unproven treatment called ‘Spirulina’, which is a type of blue-green algae, has recently been investigated by ALSUntangled*. They concluded that there is no evidence

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MND Research Models of MND News

Painting the way to new motor neurones from stem cells

2 March 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesA study led by MND Association funded researcher Prof Siddharthan Chandran from the University of Edinburgh has developed a new method to create a diverse group

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