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Steps to understanding MND
According to the multistep hypothesis, the six steps necessary to develop MND reduce to four in people with TARDBP gene mutation, three steps in C9ORF72, and two steps in SOD1.

Steps to understanding MND

nickjamescole4 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes Love them or loath them, the band Steps’ first single ‘5,6,7,8’ was a techno line dance song released in 1998 from their debut album ‘step one’, with the B side ‘words of wisdom’. Using this forced and purely tenuous link and an equally awkward segue, I would like to share with you the news that…

Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

Dr Samantha Price16 Comments

Reading Time: 4 minutes Published in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used a new approach to study the causes of MND. Under the leadership of Prof Neil Pearce, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, researchers have used a mathematical…