Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last few days and weeks the money being raised for the MND ice bucket challenge has risen unexpectedly and astonishingly. As a scientist,
Author: Belinda Cupid
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Flying towards understanding: MND, TDP43, flies and a competition
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association has funded a number of research projects in the laboratory of Dr Frank Hirth at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you followed the reporting about the symposium last weekend, I’m willing to bet (but I haven’t checked!) that most it will have been about
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe International Symposium on ALS/MND is a showcase for the international MND research and clinical practice community to get together and present their latest findings.
Reading Time: 4 minutesBackground to TDP43 A characteristic sign of motor neurones affected by motor neurone disease is the clumps of protein visible down a microscope. Although these
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the heat of August (for once I can actually write that, without my fingers crossed behind my back!), statistics relating to the production of
Reading Time: 3 minutesBrain Awareness Week got off to a good start for me. Last night I attended the awards ceremony for a joint competition run by the
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn the last day of the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND in Chicago last week there was an excellent session on ‘the role of non-neuronal
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Chicago, it’s the beginning of the third day of the International Symposium on ALS/MND. I feel that I’ve become almost institutionalised: I get up,