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News Briefs | 7 Jan 2016

MS Research Roundup: 8 January 2016

Mind-Body Evidence in MS; Your MS Research Playlist; This Bike Has MS & Kiss Goodbye to MS

Carol Cruzan Morton & Stephani Sutherland
Items of interest to multiple sclerosis researchers from around the Web...
Clinical Research, People
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New Findings | 30 Nov 2015

Probing T Cell Gene Regulatory Networks for Early Signs of Disease

A network model of gene expression during human T cell differentiation, combined with results of genome-wide association studies, helps identify potential disease markers in asymptomatic patients with MS

Pat McCaffrey
In relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, normally protective immune T cells transform into effector cells that...
Clinical Research, Laboratory Research
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Blogs | 17 Nov 2015

PodBlog: B-Cell Double Header

In episodes 56 and 57 of the MS Discovery podcast, Gavin Giovannoni, MBBCH, PhD, and Timothy Vollmer, MD, discuss the first large-scale study of a drug showing some benefits in a progressive form of multiple sclerosis. The story goes back decades, as Stephen Hauser, MD, recently explained.

Carol Cruzan Morton
A former beauty queen made a big impression on Stephen Hauser, MD, when he was...
Clinical Research, Drug Development, Laboratory Research, Meetings, People
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News Briefs | 16 Oct 2015

MS Research Roundup: October 16, 2015

Highlights from the 2015 meeting of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) in Barcelona: B-Cell Bashing Ocrelizumab; New Outcome Measure for Daclizumab

Carol Cruzan Morton
Items of interest in multiple sclerosis research from around the Web...
Clinical Research, Drug Development, Meetings
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Blogs | 7 Oct 2015

PodBlog: Status of Stem Cell Therapies for MS

Episode 55 of the MSDF podcast features Michael Levy, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who discusses the status of regenerative stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis.

Carol Cruzan Morton
Episode 55 of the MSDF podcast is out. Check it out. The podcast features an interview with...
Clinical Research, Drug Development, Laboratory Research, Meetings, People
Podcasts | 20 Aug 2015

Episode 51 with Dr. Luke Lairson on discovery of small molecules to induce remyelination

MSDF interviews Luke Lairson PhD of The Scripps Research Institute and the California Institute for Biomedical Research about a drug screen to find potential remyelination compounds and the strategy for researching their potential usefulness as candidate drugs to repair tissue damage in MS.

MS Discovery
Links to articles and other resources mentioned in Episode 51
Drug Development, Laboratory Research, Methods
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Blogs | 2 Jul 2015

The Orion Conference: Turning Big Data Into Knowledge

A conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, outlined progress and challenges in turning computational modeling into actionable knowledge in MS and other brain disorders

Allison Provost, Ph.D.
I’d like to tell you about a conference that Orion Bionetworks hosted at the...
Clinical Research, Drug Development, Laboratory Research, Meetings, Methods

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