by Bec Sheean | Jan 31, 2017 | Discovery Research
In this blog I will go into the last two disease process associated with MND from the review paper “Decoding ALS: from genes to mechanism”. This week we are going to focus on topics e and f which discuss changes in transport along the axon of the motor neuron and...
by Bec Sheean | Jan 16, 2017 | Discovery Research, Pre-Clinical Research
Disease Processes in MND: Part 2 Following on from last year’s blog where you would have read about the disease processes – disturbances in protein quality control, from the review paper “Decoding ALS: from genes to mechanism”, this week we are going to focus on...
by Bec Sheean | Dec 22, 2016 | Clinical Trials, Discovery Research, Pre-Clinical Research
In early December, the 27th International Symposium on MND was held at the Dublin Convention Centre, located on the banks of the river Liffey. The conference ran over 3 days and was attended by over 800 delegates made up of MND researcher’s, neurologists, carers and...
by Bec Sheean | Nov 18, 2016 | Discovery Research
This week a new article was published in Nature, one of the best journals in the scientific field. It is a review entitled “Decoding ALS: from genes to mechanism” and is an excellent summary of what we know and what we think might cause MND. The article contains some...
