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The season of the gene

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Welcome to this afternoon’s genetics session, which I hope will convey elements of hope and excitement about the season of the gene” were Professor Teepu

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Next chapter of BMAA detective story

1 December 2011

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

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If you were a car, would you be a Ferrari or a Focus?

1 December 2011

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

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Copying, transporting and creating proteins – what could possibly go wrong?

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesProteins are the building blocks of our cells and have a variety of important roles within our bodies. The instructions for how to build our

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Another recycling bounty hunter linked to MND

3 November 2011

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.

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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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