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Earning their stripes – Zebrafish lead the way to learning more about MND

16 June 2011Kelly Edwards11 Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes Zebrafish are increasingly becoming the organism of choice to study both early development and disease. But why are zebrafish important to MND research and can we really learn anything from a fish? Shall I compare thee to a zebrafish? Amazingly, we share many of our genes with our finned-friend the zebrafish which means that we really…

One week on – Reflections on my first experience of the International Symposium on ALS/MND

21 December 2010Sadie Vile

Reading Time: 2 minutes Our recent blog articles describe lots of fascinating science and the progress in the care and treatment of MND/ALS that was presented at the symposium. Personally, another really positive aspect was the opportunity to meet some of the researchers face-to-face. This included several senior scientists and clinicians whose work we support, some of whom gave lectures…