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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 Healthcare MND Research News Symposium

Assistive technology and the power of voice

5 December 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutesOur general election campaign for 2015 is featured around communication because we believe that nobody should have to lose their voice to MND. The afternoon

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 Clinical Trials Symposium Treatments

What is needed to advance a drug candidate into clinical trials?

5 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND began today in Brussels, Belgium. More than 900 delegates joined the opening session to hear Dr Alfred Sandrock from

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A taste of Brussels…

21 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 4 November, we welcomed two of our funded researchers to our offices in Northampton. Ruxandra Mutihac and Matt Gabel gave us a ‘taste’ of what’s to come for

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Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesPublished in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used

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The importance of tissue in MND research

25 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Robin Highley from the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), which is based at the University of Sheffield, has written a special ‘guest blog’

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New inherited MND-causing gene identified – TUBA4A

22 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn international team of researchers, led by MND Association-funded researchers based at King’s College London, have identified mistakes in the TUBA4A gene as a new

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Neuralstem news

25 September 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn 22 September 2014 Neuralstem announced the results from their long-term follow up of three participants who were involved in their initial phase I safety

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Very ‘ice’ research

22 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ALS #icebucketchallenge, which started in America, has now well and truly hit the UK! The social media craze has seen thousands of people getting

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Toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

7 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association and Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded researchers from University College London have identified that toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

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From genes to the clinic: MND Association and ALS Association-funded researcher wins the ENCALS Young Investigator Award 2014

5 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter attending the ENCALS meeting in May I was busy scheduling the ‘blog a day’ in June, which meant I didn’t get chance to actually

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