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TUDCA-ALS has started recruiting in the UK

25 November 201928 August 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesTUDCA-ALS is a European Consortium (funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 grant) involving top researchers from seven countries across Europe (see Figure

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Kennedy’s Disease vs ALS: How muscle patterns can aid diagnosis and perform as a novel biomarker

5 September 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from University College London led by Dr Pietro Fratta and Dr John Thornton found that muscle imaging can help distinguish Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

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Could MND be treated by HIV drugs?

17 July 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently published results from the open-label Lighthouse trial investigating safety of the drug Triumeq in people with MND revealed the treatment was safe and ready

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Energy and metabolism in MND cells answer the burning question

11 February 201920 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDespite the winter chill, there is a warm fuzzy feeling today with the news of a paper published in the journal ‘Brain’ by an MND

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Cannabis-based products for medicinal use

24 January 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn November 2018 the Home Office released a draft Guideline scope for Cannabis-based products for medicinal use in which they announced that specialist doctors (like

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What’s the story with CuATSM

15 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere has recently been a flood of news stories on the outcomes of the Australian Phase 1 clinical trial investigating Copper ATSM (CuATSM) which is

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Edaravone (Radicava) approved to treat MND in USA – what does this mean for people with MND in the UK

6 May 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Friday 5 May in America, the FDA, the organisation that approves drugs, announced that they’d granted a licence for the drug known as a

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Funding for Gut-sy MND research announced

29 March 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday the Reta Lila Weston Trust announced that they will be funding Dr Nikhil Sharma and colleagues at the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre (LWENC)

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Focus on the research presented in posters in Dublin

29 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver 100 talks were given at this month’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Dublin. There were also over 450 posters of research being presented too.

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Prize winning posters in Dublin

23 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs well as all the networking, debate and new information being shared, the International Symposium on ALS/MND is also a time to celebrate achievements by

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