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Adaptive licensing and MND

15 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have recently updated the clinical trials section of our website with a couple of MND clinical trials that are currently recruiting. This has led me to

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The C9orf72 mystery begins to unravel even more of its secrets

5 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 2011 an international team of scientists, including three MND Association-funded researchers, identified the elusive C9orf72 gene located on Chromosome 9. Since this ground-breaking discovery,

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Antisense seems to make sense

3 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesResults from a phase I clinical trial of a drug known as ISIS 333611 have been published open-access online in the scientific journal Lancet Neurology on

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Major new research finding raises some old questions

22 March 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesHot on the heels of ‘Brain Awareness Week’, comes ‘National Science Week’, with the University of Sheffield enthusiastically organising a numerous activities in their week-long

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A Time for New Researchers to Blossom – PhD studentship Applications

18 March 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is that time of year again when we open our Online Summary Application Form for our next round of PhD studentship applications, for projects

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Degenerating Brains

18 March 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutes“One in six of over-80 year olds will get a neurodegenerative disease. We’ve got to find ways to slow, stop or reverse these conditions” was

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Access to understanding MND research

12 March 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesBrain Awareness Week  got off to a good start for me. Last night I attended the awards ceremony for a joint competition run by the

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Brain Awareness week

12 March 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery March, Brain Awareness Week (11 – 17 March 2013) unites people of all ages worldwide to raise awareness of brain research. There are 45

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MND stem cell study identifies TDP-43 astrocytes as not toxic to motor neurones

12 February 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesFunded by the MND Association, international researchers have used stem cell technology to learn more about the relationship between motor neurones and their support cells.

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Zebrafish show that ‘connector neurons’ are the key in early stages of MND

30 January 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent study by Motor Neurone Disease Association-funded researcher Dr Tennore Ramesh from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has shown that even before

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