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The MND Research Journey: Beyond the Lab Bench

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team
The MND Research Journey

The MND Research Journey: Navigating the first miles

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team
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Welcome to the Lab

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team

Behind the Scenes of Peer Review

18 September 202518 September 2025 Eleanor Green

Finding Purpose, Building Connections and Expanding Horizons: Reflections from the MND EnCouRage UK Conference

3 September 20253 September 2025 Research Information Team

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships: looking to the present!

22 August 202522 August 2025 Eleanor Green
MND Research Models of MND

Changing fashions of MND models

2 December 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesModels of MND are important both to understand the causes of MND and to quickly, efficiently and accurately screen and develop new treatments for it.

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Clinical Trials Treatments

Clinical trial low down, down under

2 December 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes“After a time where patients and sponsors of trials alike had become disheartened about the lack of positive clinical trials, it is exciting to see

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

Windows to the brain

2 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the huge advances in biology, it can seem that areas such as brain scanning are relatively stagnant, but we are starting to see a

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

The season of the gene

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Welcome to this afternoon’s genetics session, which I hope will convey elements of hope and excitement about the season of the gene” were Professor Teepu

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MND Research

Beauty and the Beast – when misfolded proteins cause havoc

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesBeauty is often said to be skin deep, but in terms of proteins, their appearance means everything. Its appearance and shape denotes its role in

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Healthcare

A summary of the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesI wanted to write a ReCCoB blog about the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session, which is closely related to my interests, not least

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Next chapter of BMAA detective story

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Thursday morning, Profs Paul Cox and Walter Bradley chaired a session titled ‘Beyond Guam: New Aspects of the BMAA Hypothesis’. This was the latest

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

If you were a car, would you be a Ferrari or a Focus?

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople at increased risk of MND might be the human equivalent of high performance cars – built for speed and agility but becoming unreliable once

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Symposium

Mediating the delicate balance between protection and damage

30 November 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Opening Session theme on how the disease progresses within the Central Nervous System (CNS) continued with the presentation by Prof Stan Appel from Baylor

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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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