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Pre-symptomatic detection and early diagnosis in MND

14 November 202414 November 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s that time of year again when we’re counting down to the annual International Symposium on ALS/MND! This year marks the 35th Symposium, the largest scientific

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Celebrating the contribution of Women to MND research

9 February 20249 February 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutesEach year the 11th of February sees the world recognise and celebrate the contributions of women in science. The International day of Women and Girls

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

A ‘wee molecule’: the tiny urinary biomarker neopterin and its role in MND progression

1 April 20227 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy name is Stephanie Shepheard, and I am a Research Associate in the Motor Neuron Disease & Neurotrophic Research Laboratory (MND&NR Lab), Flinders Health &

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Identifying potential new diagnostic biomarkers in the blood

17 June 202025 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesGuest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written

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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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Kennedy’s Disease: focus on muscle damage reveals key biomarker

27 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesFindings from the largest biomarker study of people with Kennedy’s Disease, published in the journal Neurology, found a predictive biomarker to help in differential diagnosis

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New urine-based biomarker opens a gate to improved tracking of MND

23 February 201729 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from the Flinders University, Australia and University of Miami have discovered a new protein that can act as a biomarker to track disease progression

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Progress in the MND Oxford BioMOx project

21 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND Association funded researcher Dr Martin Turner at University of Oxford has identified a pattern of degeneration in the brains of people with MND that

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Why we need biomarkers

14 December 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday’s announcement by the biotechnology company Trophos SA of the lack of effectiveness of their compound olesoxime adds to the long list of drugs that

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Workshop on closer European working

8 October 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast weekend 19 neurologists and researchers gathered in a hotel seminar room in The Netherlands to talk about building closer links across Europe. Prof Leonard

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