Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat causes MND is the question that so many of us want to know. For the majority of people with MND we know that it
Category: Causes and disease mechanisms
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we announce a new collaboration for a preclinical research study on the diabetes drug liraglutide, in the hope that positive results will lead to
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