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What is DNA and how is it involved in MND?

14 August 202414 August 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutesOur DNA holds the instructions to many important processes within our body. Some people with MND may have changes in their DNA which contribute to

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34th Symposium: Basel Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund Symposium

Shining a Spotlight on Early Career Researchers at the Symposium

19 January 202421 March 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast month we held the 34th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Basel Switzerland. This huge event allows people from across the world to come and

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‘Hero’ proteins assemble to stop toxic clumps

31 March 202020 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesMuch like fictional superheroes who are dedicated to protecting the vulnerable with their supernatural abilities, a newly discovered class of ‘Hero’ proteins with unusual properties

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30th Symposium: Perth 2019 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Do the eyes have it? Could Resistant Nerves See Our Way to a Treatment?

30 August 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Science Show on ABC Radio National in Australia, features an interview with Professor Justin Yerbury on Saturday 17th August. The article containing the interview

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Developing a drug screen using nerve cells from a mouse model of MND

18 June 201629 April 2022

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

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When is Lou Gehrig’s Disease not Lou Gehrig’s Disease?

18 August 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months ago, I attended a media training day.  It involved a series of ‘mock’ interviews on radio and TV, performed in studios by

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