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MS research could help repair damage affecting nerves

22 Jul 2013

Multiple sclerosis treatments that repair damage to the brain could be developed thanks to new research.

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Neurons, confocal fluorescence microscopy

New treatments for pain and MS being developed in open innovation programme

25 Jun 2013

Cambridge researchers developing new therapies as part of a collaborative programme with industry.

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MRI showing lesions on the brain

New MS drug proves effective where others have failed

01 Nov 2012

Alemtuzumab, a drug previously used to treat a type of leukaemia, shown to help people with early multiple sclerosis who relapsed on previous drugs...

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Myelinated nerve fibres.

Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients

06 Jan 2012

Proof of principle study suggests the age-associated decline of the remyelination process is reversible.

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Rosettes of human, patient-specific neural stem cells

Cambridge stem cells united

21 Oct 2011

Cohesion, collaboration and clinical impact are the watchwords of a new phase of stem cell research in Cambridge.

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Illustration of a network of nerve cells in the brain.

Number of genes associated with MS doubles

11 Aug 2011

Critical insight provided into the disease mechanisms behind multiple sclerosis.

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Waldmann, Clark and Hale

Campath: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to...

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Neuron Connection

Brain stem cell discovery

01 Jul 2009

Insight could lead to new therapies to repair damage caused by MS.

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Nerve cell

New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis

01 Jan 2009

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.

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