Motor neurone disease (MND) is a progressive and, as yet, incurable illness that results in gradual paralysis and death, almost certainly within one to five years. It causes the degeneration of ...

Some muscles are resistant to the loss of motor neurons seen in patients with spinal muscular atrophy, and new research has ...

Motor neuron disease usually refers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but it can also refer to other kind of neurodegenerative disease that affect the motor neurons, such as progressive primary ...

In studies by Massachusetts General Hospital, the AbbVie-Calico collaborative drug and Denali Therapeutics' own drug failed to meet endpoints for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more widely ...

Scientists are set for a £78 million financial injection to advance the development of a groundbreaking treatment for motor neurone ... to treating motor neurone degeneration, targeting a ...

Motor neuron diseases (MND), such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), are rare and debilitating conditions affecting the nervous system, leading to muscle weakness. Despite extensive research ...

They discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects ... and their connection to muscle from degeneration. "Work is already under ...

The aim of this project is to determine if we can use zebrafish to study motor neuron biology and degeneration. Zebrafish afford many advantages over mice in terms of their amenability to live imaging ...

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a clinical condition of upper motor neuron lesion signs ... in contact sports may be associated with increased rates of early spinal degeneration as well as ...