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Chicago researchers have found clumps of the ‘FUS’ protein in motor neurones of people with familial MND AND in motor neurones of people with sporadic MND.

Dr Brian Dickie, our director of research development says that: "This research adds weight to the opinion of many scientists that we may at last be homing in on some of the key pivotal disease processes that are occurring in MND.

“It is looking like TDP-43 and FUS proteins represent a ‘smoking gun’ in most forms of the disease."

To read more, please see our news in research article:  www.mndassociation.org/research/news_in_research/fus_clumps_found_in.html

To keep up-to-date with the latest news on MND research and learn how we are moving towards our aims set out by our research strategy (in real time!) please go to http://mndresearch.wordpress.com.

If you want more information on this new and exciting research finding, please contact the research team on  01604 611 880  01604 611 880 , or research@mndassociation.org.

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Previous research news:

 "MND Association funded study finds new clues to genetic causes of MND"

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"Collaborative researchers from across the world have discovered a variant in a gene called KIFAP3 that improves survival in people with MND by approximately 14 months"

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Keep up to date with all the latest findings at:     www.mndassociation.org/researchnews