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CYLD: New FTD and MND gene identified

7 April 202020 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to the collaboration, hard work and partnerships with people affected by motor neurone disease (MND) who generously take part in research, new pieces of

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How faulty proteins disrupt waste recycling and disposal inside nerve cells

1 July 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield have uncovered a new function of the C9orf72 protein. A paper

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Can zebrafish help us to learn more about MND?

16 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesA team at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience are creating a zebrafish model to study the C9orf72 gene mutation in MND, and work out

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Finding a connection between the cell’s waste disposal system and MND

4 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust like when we put out our recycling every week, the cells in our body have their own recycling system too. One of the recycling

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Using fruit flies to understand a genetic cause of MND

1 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesMistakes in a gene known as ALS5, or spatacsin, cause a rare form of inherited MND that develops at a much earlier age than most

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The TBK1 jigsaw puzzle

25 March 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing on from the identification of the gene TBK1 as a contributory risk factor for MND in February, the plot thickens further with research published yesterday

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Mastering Pac-Man

6 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowing up in a seaside town in the 1980s led to me spending a lot of my “formative years” in the local amusement arcades, playing

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