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Marking Rare Disease Day – how working together can help

28 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is world Rare Disease Day, so it’s an appropriate time to raise awareness of ALL rare diseases, including motor neurone disease. There are between

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Researchers identify the TBK1 gene as a risk factor in MND

23 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesPublished on 19 February 2015 in the Journal Science, an international team of scientists have found mutations in the gene TBK1 as a contributory risk factor in MND.

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Buckets more research – some of our plans for the Ice Bucket Challenge money

12 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesToday’s announcement of the difference the ALS / MND ice bucket challenge has made included a number of areas of research investment. You’ll be hearing

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Making antisense of RNA editing

6 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAssociation-funded PhD student, Helena Chaytow (Royal Holloway, University of London), is using DNA to develop a targeted treatment for MND. Now entering her final year,

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New fellowship awarded to further our understanding of RNA in MND

1 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Pietro Fratta (University College London) received his initial Training Fellowship through the MND Association/ Medical Research Council (MRC) Lady Edith Wolfson Programme in 2010.

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Pretty ‘fly’ for a fruit fly

27 January 20152 August 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Dr Frank Hirth is one of the world’s leading fruit fly MND researchers. Based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College

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Research priorities in palliative and end of life care

15 January 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a fitting start to a new year, the results of the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership top 10 priorities for

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Measuring the nerve impulse

12 January 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesResearchers identify that loss of nerve signalling may be an early sign of MND Published in Nature Communications on 12 January 2015, Association-funded PhD student Anna-Claire

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On the twelfth day of Christmas MND research gave to me: twelve – a low number of authors on a research paper

5 January 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe final day of our ‘twelve days of Christmas’ blogs has arrived. We hope you’ve enjoyed our festive overview of 2014 and we look forward

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On the eleventh day of Christmas MND research gave to me: Eleven BRAP members

4 January 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute “On the eleventh day of Christmas MND research gives to you… ELEVEN members on our Biomedical Research Advisory Panel” Thanks to a record-breaking MND research

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