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Using induced pluripotent stem cells to further our understanding of MND

18 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Jakub Scaber from the University of Oxford is our newest Medical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow. He is investigating

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What’s all the ‘FUS’ about?

11 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesProf Vladimir Buchman (Cardiff University)’s research was selected as one of the best research studies, as decided by the journal editors, published in the Journal

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Matrin 3 gene identified

1 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from our ’year of hope’ appeal last month an international team of researchers, including two funded by the MND Association, have identified mutations

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Understanding Spinal Muscular Atrophy: could plant derived compounds hold the key?

13 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 3 March 2014, researchers based at the University of Edinburgh published a research paper that extends our understanding of the childhood disease – Spinal

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Flying towards understanding: MND, TDP43, flies and a competition

7 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association has funded a number of research projects in the laboratory of Dr Frank Hirth at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

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Celebrating posters

13 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you followed the reporting about the symposium last weekend, I’m willing to bet (but I haven’t checked!) that most it will have been about

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The cell that never grew up

9 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith Pantomime season kicking off back home in the UK, delegates in Milan were introduced to one of the newest cellular villains in the MND

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Physical activity and MND – is there a link?

8 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe results of new research investigating a link between physical activity and MND was presented by the University of Sheffield research group in the late-breaking

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Tilting the scales

7 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe know that in the 5-10% of cases where there is a strong family history of MND, there is likely to be a genetic cause

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Clusters of MND – What can we learn?

7 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you hear the word ‘cluster’ the first thing that comes to mind is probably a group of stars – not MND. During a plenary

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