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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

The season of the gene

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Welcome to this afternoon’s genetics session, which I hope will convey elements of hope and excitement about the season of the gene” were Professor Teepu

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Beauty and the Beast – when misfolded proteins cause havoc

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesBeauty is often said to be skin deep, but in terms of proteins, their appearance means everything. Its appearance and shape denotes its role in

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

If you were a car, would you be a Ferrari or a Focus?

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople at increased risk of MND might be the human equivalent of high performance cars – built for speed and agility but becoming unreliable once

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Copying, transporting and creating proteins – what could possibly go wrong?

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesProteins are the building blocks of our cells and have a variety of important roles within our bodies. The instructions for how to build our

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Deserved recognition

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the end of the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS/MND, two members of the MND research community were recognised for their contribution

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Rip roaring start to Symposium

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesEntering the room for the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS, there was a real air or anticipation. Organisers (yes, that included you,

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Tuesday evening – the night before Symposium

29 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt 6pm this evening, there was a real air of anticipation at the conference hotel. On level 2 the poster presenters were gradually finding their

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Lifting an invisibility cloak -making MND research results more readily available

28 July 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway!) that it is important for MND researchers to know what each other are up to –

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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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Christmas tradition – a quiz!

24 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the tradition of newspaper Christmas quizzes or bumper crossword puzzles, I had the bright idea that we could publish something similar here. In the

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