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MND EnCouRage UK 2025: Encouraging the future leaders of MND research

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MND EnCouRage UK: Looking back at four years of supporting the next generation of MND researchers

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How can biomarkers be used in clinical trials in MND?

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What are clinical trials?

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What biomarkers do we have for MND?

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What are biomarkers and why do we need them?

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Copying, transporting and creating proteins – what could possibly go wrong?

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesProteins are the building blocks of our cells and have a variety of important roles within our bodies. The instructions for how to build our

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MND Research Symposium

Deserved recognition

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the end of the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS/MND, two members of the MND research community were recognised for their contribution

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MND Research

Rip roaring start to Symposium

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesEntering the room for the opening session of the International Symposium on ALS, there was a real air or anticipation. Organisers (yes, that included you,

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Symposium

Tuesday evening – the night before Symposium

29 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt 6pm this evening, there was a real air of anticipation at the conference hotel. On level 2 the poster presenters were gradually finding their

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Another recycling bounty hunter linked to MND

3 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the short space of three months, details of a second gene have been published linking MND to the protein recycling system in our cells.

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Fighting a faulty recycling machine in MND, with Prof John Mayer

18 October 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent gene finding suggests that recycling within our cells is key to all forms of MND. This story captivated many people affected by MND

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Treatments

Drug for uncontrollable laughing and crying is moving toward European licensing

6 October 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn December last year, we told you about a new drug for uncontrollable laughter and crying (known as the pseudobulbar affect) called Nuedexta that had been approved for

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund

Chromosome 9 finally reveals its secrets

21 September 201122 June 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of

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MND Research Models of MND Research we fund

Prof Siddharthan Chandran talks about the recipe for stem cell success at our Annual Conference

16 September 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe invited Prof Siddharthan Chandran to be our keynote speaker at our Annual Conference and below we’ve provided a brief overview of his presentation which we hope

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

NP001: Dr Brian Dickie’s comments…

13 September 2011

Reading Time: 9 minutesI’m sure many of you who follow our blog have also been following the discussion on our forum about the Neuraltus trial for a drug called NP001.

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