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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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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Debunking claims of risk of MND and being born between April and August

10 June 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning we read with interest an article in the Daily Mail newspaper which links MND to the month that you were born in. According to

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Healthcare MND Research News Research we fund

Medical research should start and finish with the patient

9 June 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesResults of a recent poll suggest that the UK public is incredibly supportive of healthcare research within the NHS. These results will now be used

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Clinical Trials Treatments

UK arm of worldwide dexpramipexole trial opens!

11 May 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m glad to finally announce that UK recruitment for the dexpramipexole clinical trial is now open! So far, we are aware that Liverpool has opened

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Pointing the finger towards the causes of MND

10 May 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWould it ever cross your mind that the relative lengths of your fingers might be related to the durability of your motor neurones? Probably not

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MND Research Symposium

Preparing for the symposium ‘down under’

5 May 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe organise the International Symposium on ALS/MND every year, and this year, the symposium will be going ‘down under’ to Sydney Australia on 30 November

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Unproven treatments

New unproven stem cell treatment via IV and mannitol causes concern

18 April 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have been made aware that there’s a new kid on the block in terms of unproven treatments, which is a new route of administration

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MND Research

We’ve been blogging for a year…

14 April 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the past year, our blog has been viewed nearly 16,000 times. We’ve written 97 articles to take people behind the scenes of MND research,

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Clinical Trials Get involved with research MND Research Treatments

Dexpramipexole clinical trial enrols first participant

31 March 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re aware that thing’s may seem quiet in terms of ‘big’ MND research moments… almost too quiet… Well, today, the pharmaceutical companies Biogen Idec and Knopp Biosciences announced

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MND Research Research we fund

How do we fund research?

31 March 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs we’ve mentioned in previous posts, our current research grants round is our biggest yet with 19 full applications being reviewed by our research advisory

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Completing our peer review audit for the AMRC

23 March 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesForm filling is tedious. For those of us of a certain age (I’m not saying any more!) online form filling is even more stressful. So recently,

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