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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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The MND Researchers Bake off Champion!

25 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs well as helping out with our ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month, we also asked our researchers to get involved in ‘baking’ to become

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Project-MinE

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarbara Thuss is project co-ordinator for Project MinE, an international initiative with the aim of sequencing at least 15,000 MND genomes. We announced earlier today that the

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The UK Whole Genome Sequencing project

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Samantha Price is the Research Information Co-ordinator at the MND Association. As well as organising the ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month she

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Can fish get MND?

24 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDr Tennore Ramesh is based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) based at the University of Sheffield. His Association funded research is investigating

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An insight into MND zebrafish research

23 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesNatalie Rounding is a first year PhD student funded by the MND Association. Based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield, she

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What’s blue green algae got to do with it?

22 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDr Rachael A Dunlop, based at the University of Technology Sydney is interested in sporadic MND and the links to a toxin found in blue

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Human Motor Neurones

19 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Jakub Scaber is a Medical Research Council (MRC)/  MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow who works in Professor Kevin Talbot’s Laboratory at the

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A stem cell route to the roots of MND

18 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutesNina Rzechorzek is based at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012 Nina’s article on Prof Siddharthan Chandran’s research was shortlisted for the Access to Understanding

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