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Formaldehyde exposure and increased risk of developing MND

15 July 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA new study published yesterday in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP) highlights the link between increased exposure to formaldehyde and an increased risk of

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Understanding more about GM604

6 March 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association’s Director of Research, Brian Dickie explains more about ‘GM6’, also known as ‘GM604’, a drug in development by an American pharmaceutical company

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Marking Rare Disease Day – how working together can help

28 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is world Rare Disease Day, so it’s an appropriate time to raise awareness of ALL rare diseases, including motor neurone disease. There are between

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 MND Research Symposium

Brussels sprouts poster prize stars

23 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days before Christmas, I hope that you’ll forgive the obvious pun. Rather than the small green vegetable that you either love or hate,

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Our DNA Bank: the times they are a changing…

28 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis autumn sees an exciting new development in the MND Association’s DNA Bank. Researchers can now use the samples within it to understand why motor

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MND stem cell study identifies TDP-43 astrocytes as not toxic to motor neurones

12 February 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesFunded by the MND Association, international researchers have used stem cell technology to learn more about the relationship between motor neurones and their support cells.

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Zebrafish show that ‘connector neurons’ are the key in early stages of MND

30 January 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent study by Motor Neurone Disease Association-funded researcher Dr Tennore Ramesh from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has shown that even before

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MND Association fellowships awarded to promising clinicians | 2013 | MND Association

28 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo MND clinicians have been awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) /MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellowships to help advance our understanding of MND

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Progress in the MND Oxford BioMOx project

21 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND Association funded researcher Dr Martin Turner at University of Oxford has identified a pattern of degeneration in the brains of people with MND that

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Structure of C9ORF72 repeat identified by MND Association funded researchers

21 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew exciting findings announced today provide the first insight into the structure and function of a repeated six letter genetic sequence in an MND gene

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