Human neurons regain communication in motor neuron disease lab models

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Researchers found that a potential treatment approach restored communication between neurons in laboratory models of motor neuron disease. The findings could inform future therapies, but the reported results are from lab models rather than clinical treatment outcomes.

A novel potential treatment approach for motor neuron disease (MND), similar to the approach being pursued with an investigational drug that recently entered human clinical trials, has been shown to restore broken communication between neurons in lab models of the disease. This could have beneficial therapeutic implications for 97% of people with MND, for whom there is currently no significant disease-modifying treatment.