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The UK MND DNA Bank opens its doors to researchers around the world

1 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesBy 2011 the UK motor neurone disease (MND) DNA Bank had collected over 3,000 samples from people living with MND in the UK, their family

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Researchers in Australia identify how blue-green algae may cause some cases of MND

26 September 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA toxin known as β-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), which is found in blue-green algae, has been shown to cause proteins inside cells to clump together and cause cell

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The not so powerful omega-3

18 June 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesOmega-3 fatty acids have been in the media a great deal over recent years. They can lower our risk of heart disease and they may

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The C9orf72 mystery begins to unravel even more of its secrets

5 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 2011 an international team of scientists, including three MND Association-funded researchers, identified the elusive C9orf72 gene located on Chromosome 9. Since this ground-breaking discovery,

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Baking with proteins, mRNA and DNA

28 March 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesEach and every one of us is made up of thousands of different ingredients, which all combine together to create something amazing; life. Perhaps the

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Major new research finding raises some old questions

22 March 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesHot on the heels of ‘Brain Awareness Week’, comes ‘National Science Week’, with the University of Sheffield enthusiastically organising a numerous activities in their week-long

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Zebrafish show that ‘connector neurons’ are the key in early stages of MND

30 January 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent study by Motor Neurone Disease Association-funded researcher Dr Tennore Ramesh from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has shown that even before

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Mastering Pac-Man

6 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowing up in a seaside town in the 1980s led to me spending a lot of my “formative years” in the local amusement arcades, playing

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A prize-winning story worth repeating

6 December 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesMany congratulations to Rosa Rademakers from Mayo Clinic Florida USA, winner of this year’s Paulo Gontijo Young Investigator award. She won the award for her

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University of Bath research shows how angiogenin affects motor neurone survival

10 October 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesPublished in the prestigious journal Nature Communications and funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Bath researchers looked closely at the structure of 11 mutated

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