Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Liam Knox: My name is Liam Knox and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined Dr
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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we announce a new collaboration for a preclinical research study on the diabetes drug liraglutide, in the hope that positive results will lead to
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
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 minutesPrevious research in humans and zebrafish has shown that before symptoms arise in MND, early changes occur in the interneurones. This type of nerve cell
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 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
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