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How can tissue donation help MND research?

2 July 20242 July 2024Eleanor GreenLeave a comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes Please note that this blog talks about sensitive topics such as death and tissue donation throughout. Researchers use many different tools to increase our understanding of the underlying biology of the disease. These can be animal models of MND, biological samples from people with MND and brain tissue from people that have died from the…

Our Visit to a Brain Bank

21 December 201629 April 2022Lucy Parkinson2 Comments

Reading Time: 4 minutes Brain banks are a vital resource in MND research. The MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank was established in 1989. It is part of King’s College London and King’s College Hospital, and is part-funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). After 18 months of planning, the bank has recently relocated into a bright terracotta building, fit…