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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

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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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

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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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Symposium

Mediating the delicate balance between protection and damage

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Opening Session theme on how the disease progresses within the Central Nervous System (CNS) continued with the presentation by Prof Stan Appel from Baylor

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

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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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 MND Research Symposium

Deserved recognition

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the end of the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS/MND, two members of the MND research community were recognised for their contribution

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

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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Fighting a faulty recycling machine in MND, with Prof John Mayer

18 October 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent gene finding suggests that recycling within our cells is key to all forms of MND. This story captivated many people affected by MND

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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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Prof Siddharthan Chandran talks about the recipe for stem cell success at our Annual Conference

16 September 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe invited Prof Siddharthan Chandran to be our keynote speaker at our Annual Conference and below we’ve provided a brief overview of his presentation which we hope

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

NP001: Dr Brian Dickie’s comments…

13 September 2011

Reading Time: 9 minutesI’m sure many of you who follow our blog have also been following the discussion on our forum about the Neuraltus trial for a drug called NP001.

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