Jing Wu receives funding from Karolinska Institutet’s Research Foundation. The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, ...

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

An initiative by a UK-based charity, supported by technology companies and universities, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital twin that allows people with communications ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are major global causes of death. However, their global incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years remain ...

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 ...

This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Daisy Maiden, Erin Hedges and Will Stebbeds and presented at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2025 in affiliation with LifeArc and ...

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".

From left: Joost van der Westhuizen, Ed Slater, Doddie Weir and Lewis Moody – all rugby players diagnosed with MND Photos: Getty Images; design: Demetrius Robinson As motor neurone disease started to ...

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...

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Ever wonder where your income puts you compared to the rest of the country? I do. Not in a comparison-obsessed way, but more like a quick "Am I doing OK?" check-in kind of thing. The U.S. Census ...

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L), opens new tab helped propel banking stocks higher on Wednesday after the UK markets regulator published proposals for a redress package for ...