Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring MND Awareness Month we are highlighting some of the research the MND Association funds in our ‘Project a Day’ series. Today, on global ALS/MND
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDeveloping a way to rapidly diagnose and track how MND progresses over time is a ‘holy grail’ of MND research. The search for so called
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
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous research project funded by the MND Association, Prof Kevin Talbot and colleagues from the University of Oxford developed a new TDP-43 mouse
Reading Time: 2 minutesA team at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience are creating a zebrafish model to study the C9orf72 gene mutation in MND, and work out
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the early stages of MND it is proposed that motor neurones are more susceptible to an imbalance of oxygen within the cells, known as
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
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeveloping disease models is important for furthering our understanding of MND and allows researchers to screen potential new drugs for a beneficial effect. Moving a
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeposits of the protein TDP-43 are found within the motor neurones in the majority of cases of MND, and are considered a pathological hallmark of