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Events Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

Searching for new biomarkers for MND

29 August 202429 August 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutesLast month we hosted our annual event for early career researchers (ECRs) in the UK. MND EnCouRage UK is a two day event which aims

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31st Symposium: Virtual Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Flexible molecules and droplets: researching and targeting RNA-protein complexes in MND

16 March 20212 August 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy name is Tatyana Shelkovnikova, I am an MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Senior Non-Clinical fellow. I lead my own group at the Medicines Discovery

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Panic at the (Cell’s) Depot

23 June 202023 June 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Sam Bryce-Smith – sharing his research into changes in ‘post-code’ sequences of RNA, how it continues during the COVID-19

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MND Research News Research we fund

Identifying potential new diagnostic biomarkers in the blood

17 June 202025 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesGuest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written

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28th Symposium: Boston 2017 MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on causes and treatments

22 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutesFollowing on from our previous catch-up blog on clinical management talks presented at the Symposium, here is a continuation that looks at talks focusing on

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28th Symposium: Boston 2017 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Libraries, Doormen and Harry Potter

9 December 20172 August 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutesI usually travel to London two to three times a month for meetings and lab visits. If I’ve got any length of spare time, I

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Closing the door on toxic proteins – new clues in understanding a genetic form of MND

5 July 201720 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe defects in the C9orf72 gene are known to cause motor neurone disease, but researchers don’t understand why. Defective copies of this gene are passed

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Exploring the interaction between TDP-43 and RNA

5 April 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn light of the upcoming Biomedical Research Advisory Panel meeting happening on Friday 7 April that will discuss which new research projects the MND Association will fund,

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Motor neurone signalling and the effects of RNA in MND

30 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Pietro Fratta completed his first MRC-MND Association Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2014. Last year he was awarded a new £1.16 million Clinician Scientist

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

The MND Researchers Bake off Champion!

25 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs well as helping out with our ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month, we also asked our researchers to get involved in ‘baking’ to become

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