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Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesPublished in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used

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New inherited MND-causing gene identified – TUBA4A

22 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn international team of researchers, led by MND Association-funded researchers based at King’s College London, have identified mistakes in the TUBA4A gene as a new

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Neuralstem news

25 September 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn 22 September 2014 Neuralstem announced the results from their long-term follow up of three participants who were involved in their initial phase I safety

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Toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

7 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association and Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded researchers from University College London have identified that toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

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From genes to the clinic: MND Association and ALS Association-funded researcher wins the ENCALS Young Investigator Award 2014

5 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter attending the ENCALS meeting in May I was busy scheduling the ‘blog a day’ in June, which meant I didn’t get chance to actually

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Sheffield work towards a treatment for SOD1 form of MND

15 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA number of articles were published in various news sources on 11 July 2014, highlighting how scientists in Sheffield are working towards testing a promising

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Project-MinE

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarbara Thuss is project co-ordinator for Project MinE, an international initiative with the aim of sequencing at least 15,000 MND genomes. We announced earlier today that the

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The UK Whole Genome Sequencing project

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Samantha Price is the Research Information Co-ordinator at the MND Association. As well as organising the ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month she

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Another piece in the MND Jigsaw..

4 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearch published yesterday on 3 June 2014 in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, highlights key insights into how the protein TDP-43 may cause motor neurones to

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Tirasemtiv Phase II clinical trial – results

29 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe top-line results from the Cytokinetics Inc Phase IIb clinical trial of Tirasemtiv were announced last week. Following this announcement, detailed results were then presented

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