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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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Boosting energy in nerve cells is a promising target for MND treatments

7 January 20215 February 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutesA study conducted by researchers at the Euan MacDonald Centre at the University of Edinburgh has shed light on how improving the function of mitochondria

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Does the glymphatic system play a role in MND?

27 August 202027 August 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesAt last year’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Perth, Australia, Professor Jeffrey Iliff talked about the glymphatic system (C1 in abstract book) – a series

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Toxicity of cerebrospinal fluid in ALS/MND

7 August 20207 August 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesA systematic review of existing scientific literature, performed by a team of researchers led by Dr Arpan Mehta, MRC/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellow

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11th Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellowship awarded

24 July 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are delighted to announce that Dr Arpan Mehta has been appointed as our latest Lady Edith Wolfson Fellow, jointly funded by the MND Association

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New fellowship to investigate muscle fasciculations

5 October 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring Awareness month in June we reported on the work of Dr James Bashford at King’s College London, exploring new ways of measuring muscle fasciculations

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Motor neurone signalling and the effects of RNA in MND

30 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Pietro Fratta completed his first MRC-MND Association Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2014. Last year he was awarded a new £1.16 million Clinician Scientist

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Developing the Biomarkers in Oxford Project

20 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBiomarkers in Oxford (BioMOx) is a research project with the aim of identifying a diagnostic biomarker for MND, which could be used to track the

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Flying towards an understanding of TDP-43

13 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you looked at the motor neurones of people with MND down the microscope you would see clumps of a protein called TDP-43. Researchers around

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The role of the protein TDP-43 in MND due to C9orf72 mutations

3 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesMistakes in the C9orf72 gene are the most common cause of inherited MND, and can be linked to about 40% of all cases. Now that

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