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Written in the stars – do astrocytes hold the key to motor neurone death?

2 February 20222 February 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago, it was believed that it was only the motor neurones, the long nerve cells that carry messages from the brain to the muscles

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What goes wrong with electrical signalling in MND?

21 April 201720 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast year, we introduced a PhD Studentship that we are funding at the University of St Andrews. Under the supervision of Dr Gareth Miles and

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21st Symposium: Orlando 2010 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Symposium

Learning about genetic messages and their potential role in MND

11 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesTalks on RNA biology are new to the symposium this year as it is the newest puzzle piece to the expanding list of possible cellular

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