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Clinical Trials Healthcare MND Research

New gene therapy targeting C9orf72-ALS begins Phase 1 clinical trial in the UK

19 September 201922 June 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis article was written by Dr Keith Mayl and Dr Ahmad Al Khleifat of King’s College London. Researchers at King’s College Hospital, led by Professor

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research News

Kennedy’s Disease vs ALS: How muscle patterns can aid diagnosis and perform as a novel biomarker

5 September 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from University College London led by Dr Pietro Fratta and Dr John Thornton found that muscle imaging can help distinguish Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

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30th Symposium: Perth 2019 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Do the eyes have it? Could Resistant Nerves See Our Way to a Treatment?

30 August 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Science Show on ABC Radio National in Australia, features an interview with Professor Justin Yerbury on Saturday 17th August. The article containing the interview

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Focusing on mitochondria – a potential target for early MND treatment?

14 August 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Arpan Mehta, one of our Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellows, and his team at the Euan MacDonald Centre at the University of Edinburgh have

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Could MND be treated by HIV drugs?

17 July 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently published results from the open-label Lighthouse trial investigating safety of the drug Triumeq in people with MND revealed the treatment was safe and ready

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How animals are helping to improve our understanding of MND

26 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘From antibiotics and insulin to blood transfusions and treatments for cancer or HIV, virtually every medical achievement in the past century has depended directly or

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

FaTHoM 2: UK-leading MND clinicians on inherited MND

20 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter its successful premiere in 2017, the University of Oxford organised another meeting of people affected by inherited MND, called ‘Families for the Treatment of

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Microbiome: is the answer in our guts?

31 May 20193 August 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesExploring the link between our guts and our general health is becoming increasingly popular. Studies of people with various physical and mental health conditions suggest

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

Tofersen: antisense oligonucleotide drug shows promising results in Phase 1/2 trial

7 May 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent press release by the pharmaceutical company Biogen reported preliminary results from an ongoing clinical trial investigating a form of precision therapy in people

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Clinical Trials Healthcare MND Research

Paving the way towards better clinical trials

3 April 20198 April 2022

Reading Time: 10 minutes“The annals of ALS clinical trials is strewn with failed studies. Only two out of more than 70 clinical trials have been positive, and even

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