Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). The 47-year-old flanker, who won several titles throughout his 16-year career, discovered he had the ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Haruhisa Inoue (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University) and Professor Yuishin Izumi (Tokushima University) demonstrated that adenine base ...

From your perspective, what are the biggest scientific and clinical knowledge gaps that still limit our understanding of motor neuron disease today? Motor neuron disease is an umbrella term describing ...

Workplace exposure to pesticides (herbicides and insecticides) is linked to a 60%–70% heightened risk of the most common form of motor neuron disease—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS for ...

A low uptake of New Zealanders with motor neurone disease are using the only publicly-funded treatment available for the disease, a new study shows. Motor neurone disease (MND) was a fatal, rapidly ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to muscle loss and can severely impair the mobility of those affected. It is usually caused by a defect in the SMN1 gene, which ...