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Pleased to share this first-author review, out now in Molecular Neurodegeneration! 'The era of cryptic exons: implications for ALS-FTD' We discuss recent discoveries & the exciting opportunities that cryptic exons offer for the development of novel therapies & biomarkers in #ALS #MND #FTD 🧠🧪

We are recruiting a lab manager! If interested in helping shape a growing lab and directly contribute to molecular and cellular translational research in ALS, in London, please apply below: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

It’s time to vote for your favourite image in our 2023 image competition! We were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries & are excited that we will be highlighting many of researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series over the coming weeks. Vote here: focalplane.biologists.com/2023/07/04/foc…

Thank you FocalPlane for shortlisting my image of neuromuscular junctions in your competition. Please vote for number 5 - it could be on the cover of Journal of Cell Science!🔬👩🏻‍🔬 focalplane.biologists.com/2023/07/04/foc…

Proud and honoured to have won this fantastic competition! Thank you to everyone that voted, and also to FocalPlane for the amazing opportunity to share the beauty of NMJs and have my image in JSC. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted too - your images were stunning 🔬

Happy to share our latest paper: "A scalable human iPSC-based neuromuscular disease model on suspended biobased elastomer nanofiber scaffolds" Co-authored with the fantastic Aimee Cheesbrough, Wenhui Song, published in Biofabrication IOP Publishing iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Issue 17 is complete Explore our ToC here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/136/… Our cover image, from Rebecca Simkin, won the 2023 FocalPlane image competition. It shows 4 NMJs in a mouse hind paw, with the lower motor neuron in green & post-synaptic acetylcholine receptors in magenta.

Happy Halloween 💀

Turning the Tide A documentary highlighting pioneering MND research by a team at @UCL funded by the MND Association, @LifeArc1 and My Name'5 Doddie Foundation Foundation. Jo and Lucy, living with #MND, share an honest insight into how the disease has impacted their lives. 🔬 #TurningTheTide

We are delighted to launch our new banner images on FocalPlane! Every day this week, we’ll release a new banner & highlight the scientist that acquired the image. We kick-off with an image from Rebecca Simkin, winner of our 2023 image competition. focalplane.biologists.com/2023/11/13/new…

Want to deliver gene therapies broadly, but activate them only in diseased neurons? TDP-REG "hacks" TDP cryptic mis-splicing to drive expression only WHEN and WHERE needed! Less toxicity, wider therapeutic window, new options for sporadic ALS therapies. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

You can choose your favourite JCS cover of 2023! If you fancy voting, please consider Issue 17 🤩🥼👩🏻‍🔬

Muscles 💪 and AAV 🦠 - what more could you ask for? Our preprint highlighting strategies for effective transduction of skeletal muscle with AAV with Wenanlan @J_N_Slayer FrattaLab : biorxiv.org/content/10.110… UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences UCL Div of Surgery The Crick UK Dementia Research Institute

The latest Issue of European Journal of Neuroscience is here! 🧠📚 🌟 This issue features a stunning cover image captured by Rebecca Simkin, the talented winner of the FENS-EJN Image Competition 2024. 📸 Click here to check out the full issue: loom.ly/IzoT7gE