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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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Progress in the MND Oxford BioMOx project

21 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND Association funded researcher Dr Martin Turner at University of Oxford has identified a pattern of degeneration in the brains of people with MND that

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Structure of C9ORF72 repeat identified by MND Association funded researchers

21 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew 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

6 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowing 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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A prize-winning story worth repeating

6 December 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesMany 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

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Nature, nurture, genetics and / or chance – what causes MND?

5 December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesTrying to understand what the different underlying factors are towards developing MND has always been a goal for ALS research. MND Association funded researcher and

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It almost time for my annual upload of matters MND research!

27 November 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhilst 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

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University of Bath research shows how angiogenin affects motor neurone survival

10 October 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesPublished in the prestigious journal Nature Communications and funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Bath researchers looked closely at the structure of 11 mutated

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