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Finding new treatments for MND

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Understanding what goes wrong in MND

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Improving care and quality of life in MND

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Studying the biology of MND

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Inspiring a New Generation of Scientists at New Scientist Live 2025

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The MND Research Journey: Beyond the Lab Bench

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Very ‘ice’ research

22 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ALS #icebucketchallenge, which started in America, has now well and truly hit the UK! The social media craze has seen thousands of people getting

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Toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

7 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association and Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded researchers from University College London have identified that toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

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From genes to the clinic: MND Association and ALS Association-funded researcher wins the ENCALS Young Investigator Award 2014

5 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter attending the ENCALS meeting in May I was busy scheduling the ‘blog a day’ in June, which meant I didn’t get chance to actually

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The MND Researchers Bake off Champion!

25 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs well as helping out with our ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month, we also asked our researchers to get involved in ‘baking’ to become

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Sheffield work towards a treatment for SOD1 form of MND

15 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA number of articles were published in various news sources on 11 July 2014, highlighting how scientists in Sheffield are working towards testing a promising

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Sally Light – my MND research blog

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo end MND Awareness month our final blog for our MND Research ‘blog a day’ is from Sally Light, CEO of the MND Association. After joining the Association back in

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Project-MinE

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarbara Thuss is project co-ordinator for Project MinE, an international initiative with the aim of sequencing at least 15,000 MND genomes. We announced earlier today that the

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The UK Whole Genome Sequencing project

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Samantha Price is the Research Information Co-ordinator at the MND Association. As well as organising the ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month she

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Cycling to ENCALS – “on yer bike”

29 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesMedical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, is based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN),

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Postcard from Australia

29 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Emma Devenney is an MND Association and Neuroscience Research Australia funded PhD student investigating the Cerebellum in MND and Frontotemporal Dementia at Neuroscience Research

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