Reading Time: 4 minutes New exciting findings announced today provide the first insight into the structure and function of a repeated six letter genetic sequence in an MND gene
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Mastering Pac-Man
Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up in a seaside town in the 1980s led to me spending a lot of my “formative years” in the local amusement arcades, playing
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Many congratulations to Rosa Rademakers from Mayo Clinic Florida USA, winner of this year’s Paulo Gontijo Young Investigator award. She won the award for her
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trying to understand what the different underlying factors are towards developing MND has always been a goal for ALS research. MND Association funded researcher and
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whilst I try and keep up to date with what’s going on in the field for the rest of the year, it definitely goes in
Reading Time: 3 minutes Published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications and funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Bath researchers looked closely at the structure of 11 mutated
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has been awarded with the fifth Medical Research Council (MRC)/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson
Reading Time: 3 minutes An international research group spanning seven countries and including 23 researchers has identified a gene that modifies survival in MND. The gene, called EPHA4 was identified through
Reading Time: 3 minutes An MND causing gene called profilin 1 has been identified as the cause of about two percent of cases of inherited MND. This finding provides new insights
Reading Time: 3 minutes Angiogenin was discovered as a cause of MND for a small number of families affected by the inherited form of MND in 2006. Since then,