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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Clinical Trials MND Research Symposium Treatments

Edaravone trial presentation sparks interest

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesBar a few bacteria usually found hitching a ride on our dental plaque and digestive system, every living cell in the human body needs oxygen.

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

New ALS gene represents another small step

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt wouldn’t be the Symposium without a new gene discovery. Although technology has allowed incredible advances in the gene-hunting field, this is countered by the

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Spreading the seeds of an idea: MND disease pathology

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith motor neurone disease (MND), the muscle weakness almost always starts in a single part of the body, with the weakness then spreading to other

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

The BMAA story in a nutshell

12 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearch into the neurodegenerative condition known as Guam ALS-Parkinson Dementia Complex (ALS-PDC) has tended to find itself slightly isolated from the mainstream MND/ALS research world

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…..and prizes….

30 November 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fantastic news that Patrick Joyce and his co-inventors have won the 2015 Hackaday Prize for their ‘Eyedrivomatic’ invention is one of a number of research

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments Unproven treatments

Understanding more about GM604

6 March 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association’s Director of Research, Brian Dickie explains more about ‘GM6’, also known as ‘GM604’, a drug in development by an American pharmaceutical company

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 MND Research News Symposium Treatments

SOD1 Stuff

7 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith all the talk of new gene discoveries in recent years, the Sunday morning scientific session returned to the original discovery in 1993 that mutations

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research News Symposium

Neurofilaments show promise as biomarker candidates for MND

6 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesSaturday afternoon saw the 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND expand from two to three sessions running in parallel. Times have changed from the early years of

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MND Research News Treatments

MND Association joins as a Founding Partner of the Neurodegeneration Medicines Acceleration Program

18 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver since the G8 summit on Dementia less than a year ago there has been a huge upsurge in international research activity in the field.

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24th Symposium: Milan 2013 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Symposium

The cell that never grew up

9 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith Pantomime season kicking off back home in the UK, delegates in Milan were introduced to one of the newest cellular villains in the MND

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