Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the past year, our blog has been viewed nearly 16,000 times. We’ve written 97 articles to take people behind the scenes of MND research,
Author: Kiran Goyal
I work as a Research Officer within the MND Association to help organise the International Symposium and communicating the latest updates of MND research across our social media platforms. I graduated with a master's degree in Neuroscience from Cardiff University in 2023. I have previously supported the awareness of Fragile X syndrome within the UK.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re aware that thing’s may seem quiet in terms of ‘big’ MND research moments… almost too quiet… Well, today, the pharmaceutical companies Biogen Idec and Knopp Biosciences announced
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs we’ve mentioned in previous posts, our current research grants round is our biggest yet with 19 full applications being reviewed by our research advisory
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unproven treatment called ‘Spirulina’, which is a type of blue-green algae, has recently been investigated by ALSUntangled*. They concluded that there is no evidence
Reading Time: 3 minutesA study led by MND Association funded researcher Prof Siddharthan Chandran from the University of Edinburgh has developed a new method to create a diverse group
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
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSixty of the world’s leading stem cell research experts are meeting in New York, USA on 24 to 25 January to discuss and debate MND
Reading Time: 3 minutesTissue donation has played a vital role in many important MND research findings. Without the generosity of individuals who decide to donate their brains and spinal cords to
Reading Time: 2 minutes1.What percentage of our genes do we share with a chimp? 98 2.What percentage of our genes do we share with a mouse? 90 3.Our
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