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Chromosome 9 finally reveals its secrets

21 September 201122 June 2020

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

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New gene finding suggests recycling is key to all forms of MND

22 August 2011

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

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Thinking outside the neurone and toward the stars

15 August 2011

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.

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Debunking claims of risk of MND and being born between April and August

10 June 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning we read with interest an article in the Daily Mail newspaper which links MND to the month that you were born in. According to

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Pointing the finger towards the causes of MND

10 May 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWould it ever cross your mind that the relative lengths of your fingers might be related to the durability of your motor neurones? Probably not

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Studying the risk of developing MND

12 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesA very natural response to receiving a diagnosis of MND is to ask ‘Why me?’. Many people with the disease question whether their MND could

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Learning about genetic messages and their potential role in MND

11 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesTalks on RNA biology are new to the symposium this year as it is the newest puzzle piece to the expanding list of possible cellular

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Standing room only at the opening session of the symposium

11 December 20108 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe International Symposium on ALS/MND has now begun! As researchers, clinicians and health and social care professionals from around the world came together in the

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Breaking news: new gene identified as a cause of inherited MND

9 December 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearch published today in Neuron has identified that mistakes in a gene called VCP can cause an inherited (familial) form of MND. This is the third gene this year

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Three new projects, three steps closer to a world free of MND

24 September 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNext month will see the start of three new Association-funded research projects that will each move us closer to achieving some of the key targets set

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