Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo sets of MND genetic results were published yesterday. One of these results was about the importance of a new gene called NEK1. The second
Category: Causes and disease mechanisms
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday some exciting news about the genetics of MND was published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. The results come in two research papers published
Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Pietro Fratta completed his first MRC-MND Association Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2014. Last year he was awarded a new £1.16 million Clinician Scientist
Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Russell McLaughlin from Trinity College Dublin is one of our Junior Non-Clinical Fellows. Our Non-Clinical Fellowships were awarded for the first time last year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers can create human motor neurones exhibiting signs of MND in the lab by taking skin cells from a person living with MND and reprogramming
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn previous research Prof Kevin Talbot and colleagues at the University of Oxford began to understand more about how the C9orf72 gene defect causes human
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhD student Emma Smith has recently started the second year of her MND Association-funded research project at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTRAN) in
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust like when we put out our recycling every week, the cells in our body have their own recycling system too. One of the recycling
Reading Time: 2 minutesMistakes in the C9orf72 gene are the most common cause of inherited MND, and can be linked to about 40% of all cases. Now that