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Reuniting the MND community at the 34th International Symposium on ALS/MND

15 December 202315 December 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter 3 years of online events, the MND research and healthcare community reunited in-person at the 34th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Basel, Switzerland! From

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Revisited: should routine genetic testing be considered for all cases of MND?

27 September 202226 September 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe recent publication of the results from the Phase 3 Tofersen trial, an experimental gene therapy for the treatment of MND in people with a

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Collaborating across Europe to find a cure: ENCALS 2016

27 May 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes332 delegates, 135 posters, 41 talks, one goal: to cure ALS The European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ENCALS) was set up

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Pesticides linked to increased risk of developing MND

10 May 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe results from a study looking at the possible links between exposure to environmental toxins (found in pesticides) and motor neurone disease (MND) was published

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More clues to the inner workings of the C9orf72 gene

4 April 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesContinuing the ‘gene hunting theme’ on from our last blog post on Project MinE, a recently published study has shed more light on the C9orf72

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…..and prizes….

30 November 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fantastic news that Patrick Joyce and his co-inventors have won the 2015 Hackaday Prize for their ‘Eyedrivomatic’ invention is one of a number of research

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Heading in the right direction: Sheffield Support Snood update

23 November 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesUpdate (February 2017): All sites are now closed and not recruiting for participants. If you would like to be added to a waiting list for

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Measuring the nerve impulse

12 January 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesResearchers identify that loss of nerve signalling may be an early sign of MND Published in Nature Communications on 12 January 2015, Association-funded PhD student Anna-Claire

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Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesPublished in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used

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Very ‘ice’ research

22 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ALS #icebucketchallenge, which started in America, has now well and truly hit the UK! The social media craze has seen thousands of people getting

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