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tiRNA: A Newcomer in Motor Neuron Disease

30 June 20207 July 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Elisabeth Jirström: Hi! My name is Elisabeth Jirström and I am a PhD student at Royal College of Surgeons

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30th Symposium: Perth 2019 MND Research News

The Symp Awards 2019: Highlights from Perth

27 December 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesOn top of all the sharing of research and networking, the International Symposium is a time to celebrate the huge achievements of individuals/teams that contribute

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Clinical Trials (Part 2) – Posters: Highlights from Perth

20 December 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Perth’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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Clinical Trials (Part 1) – Platform Presentations: Highlights from Perth

19 December 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Perth’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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TUDCA-ALS has started recruiting in the UK

25 November 201928 August 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesTUDCA-ALS is a European Consortium (funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 grant) involving top researchers from seven countries across Europe (see Figure

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Kennedy’s Disease vs ALS: How muscle patterns can aid diagnosis and perform as a novel biomarker

5 September 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from University College London led by Dr Pietro Fratta and Dr John Thornton found that muscle imaging can help distinguish Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

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Could MND be treated by HIV drugs?

17 July 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently published results from the open-label Lighthouse trial investigating safety of the drug Triumeq in people with MND revealed the treatment was safe and ready

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How animals are helping to improve our understanding of MND

26 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘From antibiotics and insulin to blood transfusions and treatments for cancer or HIV, virtually every medical achievement in the past century has depended directly or

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FaTHoM 2: UK-leading MND clinicians on inherited MND

20 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter its successful premiere in 2017, the University of Oxford organised another meeting of people affected by inherited MND, called ‘Families for the Treatment of

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Paving the way towards better clinical trials

3 April 20198 April 2022

Reading Time: 10 minutes“The annals of ALS clinical trials is strewn with failed studies. Only two out of more than 70 clinical trials have been positive, and even

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