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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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we announce a new collaboration for a preclinical research study on the diabetes drug liraglutide, in the hope that positive results will lead to
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago we wrote an article about the ALS Clinical Trials Workshop which took place in Virginia, USA. Since then the Guidelines Working
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday some exciting news about the genetics of MND was published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. The results come in two research papers published
Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Russell McLaughlin from Trinity College Dublin is one of our Junior Non-Clinical Fellows. Our Non-Clinical Fellowships were awarded for the first time last year.
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
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat are fasciculations? When motor neurones in the spinal cord become damaged this makes them electrically unstable, meaning they spontaneously discharge electrical impulses that cause
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen diagnosing MND, it is important to look at the activity and impact of the motor neurones themselves – is the electrical message being carried