Blocking the JNK pathway eased disease severity and extended survival in SMA mice, pointing to a potential new treatment ...

Dr Sophie Burling used her doctoral research to create a new patient-specific model of motor neurone disease, laying the groundwork for future treatments that could improve quality of life for people ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...

Researchers have shown that hundreds of proteins and mRNA molecules are found in the wrong place in nerve cells affected by Motor Neuron Disease (MND), also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS ...

The test was developed by researchers at the US-based not-for-profit Brain Chemistry Labs, who analysed 788 blood samples – roughly half from patients with the disease and half from people without it.