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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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The Medical Innovation Bill

29 April 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot has been happening in terms of research policy at the moment, from the announcement of the European adaptive licensing pilot to the Government’s Early Access to

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Early Access to Medicines scheme

17 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast month the UK Government’s Department of Health announced an Early Access to Medicines Scheme. But, what is this new scheme? and what does it

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What’s all the ‘FUS’ about?

11 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesProf Vladimir Buchman (Cardiff University)’s research was selected as one of the best research studies, as decided by the journal editors, published in the Journal

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Switching the light on for MND

7 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association-funded researcher, Prof Linda Greensmith, based at University College London, together with her collaborator Dr Ivo Lieberam from Kings College London, have introduced stem

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Matrin 3 gene identified

1 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from our ’year of hope’ appeal last month an international team of researchers, including two funded by the MND Association, have identified mutations

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Understanding Spinal Muscular Atrophy: could plant derived compounds hold the key?

13 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 3 March 2014, researchers based at the University of Edinburgh published a research paper that extends our understanding of the childhood disease – Spinal

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TDP-43: A protein that lingers on..

4 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesMND Association-funded researchers from the University of Liverpool have published results in the prestigious open access journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Under the

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