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31st Symposium: Virtual MND Research

Virtual Symposium: Through the eyes of an early career MND researcher

22 December 202022 December 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Virtual Highlights’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters

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AMBRoSIA – our biggest ever research project

12 September 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe AMBRoSIA (A Multicentre Biomarker Resource Strategy In ALS) project is our biggest, most ambitious research undertaking to date. The project funding began in August,

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How faulty proteins disrupt waste recycling and disposal inside nerve cells

1 July 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield have uncovered a new function of the C9orf72 protein. A paper

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Can zebrafish help us to learn more about MND?

16 June 201629 April 2022

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

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Developing models to test new treatments for MND

12 June 201629 April 2022

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

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Evaluating a new neck support for people living with MND

10 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe know that neck weakness can be a difficult symptom to manage in people with MND, and that the current offering of neck collars and

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Understanding more about how the cell’s batteries are affected in MND

5 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minutePhD student Emma Smith has recently started the second year of her MND Association-funded research project at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTRAN) in

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Collaborating across Europe to find a cure: ENCALS 2016

27 May 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes332 delegates, 135 posters, 41 talks, one goal: to cure ALS The European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ENCALS) was set up

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Janine Kirby: My 20 years in MND research

6 April 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesJanine Kirby is a Non-Clinical Reader in Neurogenetics and is celebrating 20 years in motor neurone disease (MND) research this month. Here she tells us

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Respiratory support: the big debate on Symposium day 2

13 December 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDifferent ways to support breathing were the main focus of the second clinical session on day two of the Symposium. Researchers from two MND Association

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