Reading Time: 2 minutesA study on zebrafish has increased our understanding of how motor neurones work and has provided potential clues for the development of future treatments for MND.
Category: Causes and disease mechanisms
22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms Markers of Disease Progression Models of MND Symposium
Promising news for keeping the motor neurone neighbourhood safe
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was standing room only in the first of the dedicated scientific sessions of the Symposium last week. All had gathered to hear Prof Stan
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Thursday morning, Profs Paul Cox and Walter Bradley chaired a session titled ‘Beyond Guam: New Aspects of the BMAA Hypothesis’. This was the latest
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople at increased risk of MND might be the human equivalent of high performance cars – built for speed and agility but becoming unreliable once
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the short space of three months, details of a second gene have been published linking MND to the protein recycling system in our cells.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine in America, have identified that faulty ubiquilin 2 plays an integral role to MND. Led by eminent
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy using spinal cord donations from people with MND, an American group of researchers have created a new, human ‘in a dish’ model of MND.