Could the gut microbiome hold the key to neurodegenerative disorders?

Written by Martha Powell

A major grant has been awarded to researchers from the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre, run by University College London and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (all London, UK), to investigate the relationship between the gut microbiome and neurodegenerative disorders, such as motor neurone disease (MND). MND has a high mortality, with approximately one-third of patients dying within a year of diagnosis. The funding, worth £1.2 million, has been awarded by the Reta Lila Weston Trust to a team of scientists hoping to elucidate how alterations in the gut microbiome could slow progression of MND and other neurodegenerative...

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