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Can fish get MND?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Dr Tennore Ramesh is based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) based at the University of Sheffield. His Association funded research is investigating the early stages of MND in zebrafish, as well as screening potential drugs. Would you ever consider that fish and humans have parallels? Interestingly it’s a “Yes”. They are vertebrates…

Giving voice to people living with MND: Voice Banking

Reading Time: 4 minutes Phillipa Rewaj, Rebecca Devon and Shuna Colville from the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, University of Edinburgh, help us celebrate Global MND Awareness day. This year’s theme is ‘voice’ and here the researchers provide us with an update on their pioneering ‘voicebanking project’, which is part-funded by the MND Association.   Ring ring….ring ring….…

Human Motor Neurones

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dr Jakub Scaber is a Medical Research Council (MRC)/  MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow who works in Professor Kevin Talbot’s Laboratory at the Oxford University. Like Prof Chandran’s research, Dr Scaber’s fellowship is also investigating stem-cell derived motor neurones, here he blogs about his research. This is an image of motor neurons. But not just…

From research to medical therapy – how research has moved on in the past 40 years

Reading Time: 4 minutes Dr Ruth Standring-Cox BSc DPhil explains about her link with MND and her research experience, including how research has moved on in the past 40 years. After successfully negotiating the “paternoster lifts” in the old Biochemistry building at Oxford University I reached the MRC Immunochemistry Unit on the 4th floor. This was 1975 and the…

Access to Understanding

Reading Time: 3 minutes Anna Kinsey (Europe PubMed Central Engagement Manager) talks about the inspiration for the science-writing competition ‘Access to Understanding’. About the Competition Now in its second year, the Access to Understanding competition challenges PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers to summarise cutting-edge life sciences or biomedical research in plain English. The competition was born from…