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How can biomarkers be used in clinical trials in MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What are clinical trials?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What biomarkers do we have for MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What are biomarkers and why do we need them?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What is genetic MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

20 June 202520 June 2025 Eleanor Green
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

MND and the mind – who is affected?

18 September 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMotor Neurone Disease (MND), as the name suggests, is known as a disease of motor neurons, a specific type of neurons that co-ordinate our voluntary

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Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Treatments

MND research around the world

15 August 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last decade, the MND Association has invested millions in research within the UK and across the world. We are a leader in the

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Why do we need the MND Register?

7 August 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst we believe that there are currently around 5,000 adults in the UK living with MND at any one time, the precise figure is not

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Steps to understanding MND

3 August 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesLove them or loath them, the band Steps’ first single ‘5,6,7,8’ was a techno line dance song released in 1998 from their debut album ‘step

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

AMBRoSIA and NECTAR – Make your mark on MND

18 July 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt has been almost a year since we announced that AMBRoSIA (A Multicentre Biomarker Resource Strategy In ALS) had begun to recruit participants (read the

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

What’s going on inside? Possible mechanisms associated with physical activity and MND

12 July 201822 July 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesUPDATE  – The question of whether exercise causes, or contributes towards MND is still very much unanswered. But a recent study by Julian and colleagues (2021) has attempted

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Healthcare MND Research

Exercise after diagnosis – a closer look at the evidence

12 June 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutesPhysical activity and MND – part 2 This is part two of our series of blogs looking at links between physical activity and MND. This

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Does physical activity cause MND? A fresh look at the evidence

23 May 201815 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesPhysical activity and MND – part 1 Every month the Research Information team looks at ‘the stats’ for the MND Research blog. These show us

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Collaboration and Consortium Cracking the Code: Uncovering KIF5A – MND gene

9 May 201820 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes‘Big data’ projects require detailed analysis of unimaginably large volumes of complex data. This is especially true in the realm of MND gene discovery when

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Physical activity and the odds of developing MND

24 April 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesPhysical activity has always been at the forefront of factors associated with MND, but studies investigating its effect have often been conflicting. The reason why

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