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
Category: Causes and disease mechanisms
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.
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
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
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
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
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