You may already be familiar with ALS, especially if you took part in the viral ice bucket challenge to raise awareness of the condition back in 2014. Now the disease, which currently has no cure, is ...

Adopting some of the strategies behind successfully treating the childhood disease spinal muscular atrophy may enable development of therapies to curb the muscle decline that accompanies aging, new ...

ALS is the most common form of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in adults. An early hallmark of ALS is the breakdown of neuromuscular junctions – the connection between the end of a motor nerve and a ...

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".

Scottish rugby international Doddie Weir has died at the age of 52 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in December 2016. Weir was among several players diagnosed with the ...

Dad-of-two Nick Apperley, who is living with Motor Neurone Disease, "gets up every morning positively" to try and make a difference.

Eric Dane, best known for Grey’s Anatomy, died at 53 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive motor neuron disease. Also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS causes muscle ...

MIT scientists find that motor neuron growth increased significantly over 5 days in response to biochemical (left) and mechanical (right) signals related to exercise. The green ball represents cluster ...

A hardworking father-of-three has revealed the warning sign that he had developed motor neurone disease at the age of just 39. Ryan Horsfall, from Suffolk, who works as a plumber, lost the ability to ...