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Behind the headlines: could a potential treatment for MND be developed into a nasal spray?

Behind the headlines: could a potential treatment for MND be developed into a nasal spray?

Research Development Team

Reading Time: 6 minutes Recent research, led by Professor Guillaume Hautbergue at the University of Sheffield, has found a potential new method of preventing nerve cell death in the most common genetic form of MND. This new method could, with further studies, lead to the development of a potential therapy for C9orf72 MND, and a type of dementia called…

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

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The 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 down in some families affected by the rare, inherited form of MND. This week MND Association grantees Drs Guillaume Hautbergue, Lydia Castelli and colleagues, based at the Sheffield Institute of…