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.

A new medicine, discovered by scientists, protects nerve cells damaged by motor neurone disease (MND), offering hope of substantially slowing the progression of "one of the cruellest diseases".

A low uptake of New Zealanders with motor neurone disease are using the only publicly funded treatment available for the ...

A new generation of laboratories orbiting the Earth in space could offer hope for motor neurone disease (MND) sufferers, with scientists increasingly optimistic they could be the key to unlocking a ...

Neale Daniher’s legacy of doggedly raising awareness and funding research to find a cure for motor neurone disease will on ...

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

Scotland’s Motor Neurone Disease charity, MND Scotland, today hosted a free, interactive, and educational local research event at Celtic Park. The Lived Experience and Researcher Network (LEARN), ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neuron disease, for 55 years. He was one of the longest-surviving people with the condition.