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Unproven treatments

New unproven stem cell treatment via IV and mannitol causes concern

18 April 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have been made aware that there’s a new kid on the block in terms of unproven treatments, which is a new route of administration

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MND Research

We’ve been blogging for a year…

14 April 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the past year, our blog has been viewed nearly 16,000 times. We’ve written 97 articles to take people behind the scenes of MND research,

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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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MND Research Research we fund

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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MND Research News

Smoking and the risk of developing MND – understanding the statistics

16 February 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday we heard that a new study had been published in the Archives of Neurology reporting that people who had (ever) smoked were 1.4 times

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Raising awareness led to raising funds for MND Association

9 February 201112 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in spring 2009 I took part in an awareness raising event organised by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The company was starting to make

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MND Research

Stem cell conference part seven: Creating new and better models for MND

31 January 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was then back to the science. Prof Frank Soldner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) provided an overview of a new and exciting way in which

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