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
Category: Causes and disease mechanisms
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
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
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
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
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn MND causing gene called profilin 1 has been identified as the cause of about two percent of cases of inherited MND. This finding provides new insights
Reading Time: 3 minutesAngiogenin was discovered as a cause of MND for a small number of families affected by the inherited form of MND in 2006. Since then,
Reading Time: 5 minutesDelegates to last weekend’s ENCALS (European Network for the Cure of ALS) meeting in Dublin were met with uncharacteristic hot and sunny weather – enjoyed
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom Sunday morning to Tuesday evening last week, there was a lot of talk of MND research going on in Liverpool. The reason for this