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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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The UK MND DNA Bank 6 months on…

11 June 201420 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s been six months since the UK MND DNA Bank (DNA Bank) opened its doors to researchers around the world, so what has been happening to

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A research perspective on the MND Association spring conferences

4 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing on from Peter Bickley, Dr Ruxandra Mutihac volunteered to present her research at the Newport Spring Conference earlier this year. Here she gives an insight

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X-rays for MND research

2 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Gareth Wright, based at the University of Liverpool, is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the MND Association. His research is all about using physics

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