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Emerging Gene-Targeting Therapies for SOD1-ALS

13 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen

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30th Symposium: Perth 2019 Clinical Trials MND Research Symposium Treatments

Clinical Trials (Part 1) – Platform Presentations: Highlights from Perth

19 December 20199 July 2020

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

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How animals are helping to improve our understanding of MND

26 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘From antibiotics and insulin to blood transfusions and treatments for cancer or HIV, virtually every medical achievement in the past century has depended directly or

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

FaTHoM 2: UK-leading MND clinicians on inherited MND

20 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter its successful premiere in 2017, the University of Oxford organised another meeting of people affected by inherited MND, called ‘Families for the Treatment of

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

Tofersen: antisense oligonucleotide drug shows promising results in Phase 1/2 trial

7 May 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent press release by the pharmaceutical company Biogen reported preliminary results from an ongoing clinical trial investigating a form of precision therapy in people

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The effects of ashwagandha in a SOD1 mouse model of MND

3 October 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe research team frequently gets asked about the effectiveness of alternative therapies and their use as treatments for MND. Here we report on a recent

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Steps to understanding MND

3 August 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesLove 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

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New urine-based biomarker opens a gate to improved tracking of MND

23 February 201729 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from the Flinders University, Australia and University of Miami have discovered a new protein that can act as a biomarker to track disease progression

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25th Symposium: Brussels 2014 MND Research News Symposium Treatments

SOD1 Stuff

7 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith all the talk of new gene discoveries in recent years, the Sunday morning scientific session returned to the original discovery in 1993 that mutations

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Sheffield work towards a treatment for SOD1 form of MND

15 July 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA number of articles were published in various news sources on 11 July 2014, highlighting how scientists in Sheffield are working towards testing a promising

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