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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Using iPSCs to understand why motor neurones lose their normal function in MND

28 June 20168 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers can create human motor neurones exhibiting signs of MND in the lab by taking skin cells from a person living with MND and reprogramming

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Transforming skin cells into nerve cells to understand MND gene mutations

27 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn previous research Prof Kevin Talbot and colleagues at the University of Oxford began to understand more about how the C9orf72 gene defect causes human

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Using DNA Bank samples to create iPSC models of MND

19 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesInduced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has enabled researchers to create and study living human motor neurones in the lab, derived originally from patient skin

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On the sixth day of Christmas MND research gave to me: Blog a Day 2014

30 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute“On the sixth day of Christmas MND research gives to you… on the SIXTH month of 2014 we wrote a Blog a Day, and you

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On the fourth day of Christmas MND research gave to me: a new stem cell research project

28 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute“On the fourth day of Christmas MND research gives to you… on the FOURTH month of 2014, we announced that we’ll fund an exciting new

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Symposium

A taste of Brussels…

21 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 4 November, we welcomed two of our funded researchers to our offices in Northampton. Ruxandra Mutihac and Matt Gabel gave us a ‘taste’ of what’s to come for

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Human Motor Neurones

19 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr 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

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A stem cell route to the roots of MND

18 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutesNina Rzechorzek is based at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012 Nina’s article on Prof Siddharthan Chandran’s research was shortlisted for the Access to Understanding

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A research perspective on the MND Association spring conferences

4 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing on from Peter Bickley, Dr Ruxandra Mutihac volunteered to present her research at the Newport Spring Conference earlier this year. Here she gives an insight

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Using induced pluripotent stem cells to further our understanding of MND

18 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Jakub Scaber from the University of Oxford is our newest Medical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow. He is investigating

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