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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund

Chromosome 9 finally reveals its secrets

21 September 201122 June 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of

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MND Research Models of MND Research we fund

Prof Siddharthan Chandran talks about the recipe for stem cell success at our Annual Conference

16 September 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe invited Prof Siddharthan Chandran to be our keynote speaker at our Annual Conference and below we’ve provided a brief overview of his presentation which we hope

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

NP001: Dr Brian Dickie’s comments…

13 September 2011

Reading Time: 9 minutesI’m sure many of you who follow our blog have also been following the discussion on our forum about the Neuraltus trial for a drug called NP001.

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Research we fund

NEW Grants Round……..NEW way of Applying!!!

12 September 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is a big day for the research grants team as we are launching our online summary application form for researchers applying for biomedical* project

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

New gene finding suggests recycling is key to all forms of MND

22 August 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine in America, have identified that faulty ubiquilin 2 plays an integral role to MND. Led by eminent

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MND Research

MND Association funded researcher featured on JNNP podcast

19 August 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt last year’s 21st International Symposium on ALS/MND, we told you about a study which suggested that handedness is linked to the site of onset

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND

Thinking outside the neurone and toward the stars

15 August 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy using spinal cord donations from people with MND, an American group of researchers have created a new, human ‘in a dish’ model of MND.

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Read all about the New York Stem Cell Conference

12 August 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute ….or at least, read even more about it!   Back in January, we reported that sixty of the world’s leading stem cell research experts from

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MND Research Research we fund

Association Receives ‘Good Practice’ Certification

29 July 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in March I mentioned that the Association’s peer review practices were being audited by the Association of Medical Research Charities. I’m pleased to say

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Unproven treatments

Warning of spam email offering an ‘electro medicine’

28 July 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are aware that a number of MND organisations, forums and people living with MND have received spam messages regarding a gentleman who claims that

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