Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 2011 an international team of scientists, including three MND Association-funded researchers, identified the elusive C9orf72 gene located on Chromosome 9. Since this ground-breaking discovery,
Reading Time: 3 minutesResults from a phase I clinical trial of a drug known as ISIS 333611 have been published open-access online in the scientific journal Lancet Neurology on
Reading Time: 4 minutesEach and every one of us is made up of thousands of different ingredients, which all combine together to create something amazing; life. Perhaps the
Reading Time: 3 minutesHot on the heels of ‘Brain Awareness Week’, comes ‘National Science Week’, with the University of Sheffield enthusiastically organising a numerous activities in their week-long
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is that time of year again when we open our Online Summary Application Form for our next round of PhD studentship applications, for projects
Reading Time: 2 minutes“One in six of over-80 year olds will get a neurodegenerative disease. We’ve got to find ways to slow, stop or reverse these conditions” was
Reading Time: 3 minutesBrain Awareness Week got off to a good start for me. Last night I attended the awards ceremony for a joint competition run by the
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
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.
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