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What is genetic MND?

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What are biomarkers and why do we need them?

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What biomarkers do we have for MND?

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What are clinical trials?

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How can biomarkers be used in clinical trials in MND?

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Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

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Degenerating Brains

18 March 2013

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

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Access to understanding MND research

12 March 201314 April 2022

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

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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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MND Association fellowships awarded to promising clinicians | 2013 | MND Association

28 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo MND clinicians have been awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) /MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellowships to help advance our understanding of MND

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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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MND Research in 2012

21 January 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesAt this time of year, it’s always good to look back on the previous year to see just how far we’ve really come. We’re pleased

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Season’s Greetings!

24 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe thought we’d share this fantastic festive photo of (to our knowledge) the world’s first ‘gingerbread MRI scanner’, lovingly created by students at the Oxford

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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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