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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Next chapter of BMAA detective story

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Thursday morning, Profs Paul Cox and Walter Bradley chaired a session titled ‘Beyond Guam: New Aspects of the BMAA Hypothesis’. This was the latest

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

If you were a car, would you be a Ferrari or a Focus?

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople at increased risk of MND might be the human equivalent of high performance cars – built for speed and agility but becoming unreliable once

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Symposium

Mediating the delicate balance between protection and damage

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Opening Session theme on how the disease progresses within the Central Nervous System (CNS) continued with the presentation by Prof Stan Appel from Baylor

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Copying, transporting and creating proteins – what could possibly go wrong?

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesProteins are the building blocks of our cells and have a variety of important roles within our bodies. The instructions for how to build our

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 MND Research Symposium

Deserved recognition

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the end of the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS/MND, two members of the MND research community were recognised for their contribution

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011

Rip roaring start to Symposium

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesEntering the room for the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS, there was a real air or anticipation. Organisers (yes, that included you,

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Tuesday evening – the night before Symposium

29 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt 6pm this evening, there was a real air of anticipation at the conference hotel. On level 2 the poster presenters were gradually finding their

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Another recycling bounty hunter linked to MND

3 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the short space of three months, details of a second gene have been published linking MND to the protein recycling system in our cells.

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Fighting a faulty recycling machine in MND, with Prof John Mayer

18 October 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent gene finding suggests that recycling within our cells is key to all forms of MND. This story captivated many people affected by MND

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Drug for uncontrollable laughing and crying is moving toward European licensing

6 October 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn December last year, we told you about a new drug for uncontrollable laughter and crying (known as the pseudobulbar affect) called Nuedexta that had been approved for

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