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Month: July 2020

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Review of evidence suggests Riluzole treatment may lead to extended survival

28 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recently published paper, reviewing 15 studies that investigated the effectiveness of riluzole as a treatment for MND in real-time, has suggested that the drug

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Lighting the way from MND research to the COVID-19 response

21 July 202020 July 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest researcher blog post: My name is Sophie Nyberg and I am a neuroscientist currently working in the Lighthouse COVID-19 testing labs in Alderley Park,

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Emerging Gene-Targeting Therapies for SOD1-ALS

13 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen

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Targeting Tregs: IMODALS study paves the way for MIROCALS

7 July 20205 May 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, researchers are increasingly also interested in events happening outside the brain and spinal cord, in particular whether changes in

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