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32nd Symposium: Virtual Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare MND Research Research we fund

Genetics and MND

2 November 202123 November 2021

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is blog number two in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green text correspond

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Understanding family experiences of inherited MND: developing a new web resource on Healthtalk.org

7 October 20207 October 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Jade Howard. Hello, my name is Jade Howard and I am a second year PhD student from The Health

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Clinical Trials MND Research News

Emerging Gene-Targeting Therapies for SOD1-ALS

13 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

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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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

More information for families affected by inherited MND available online

2 August 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn April this year MND clinician-researchers Professors Martin Turner and Kevin Talbot at the University of Oxford organised an information day about the rare, inherited

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Healthcare MND Research

Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND (FaTHoM)

20 February 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesScientists from the University of Oxford have set up ‘Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND’ (FaTHoM), an initiative to bring together the community of

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26th Symposium: Orlando 2015 MND Research Symposium

“To test or not to test”, that is the question

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA huge ‘atlas’ mapping the locations of motor neurone disease (MND) causing mutations within the genetic code has been collated. This has followed years of

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Toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

7 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association and Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded researchers from University College London have identified that toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

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Chromosome 9 finally reveals its secrets

21 September 201122 June 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of

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