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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Harry Cockburn

New generation of space labs could offer hope for motor neurone disease sufferers

A new generation of laboratories orbiting the Earth in space could offer hope for motor neurone disease (MND) sufferers, with scientists increasingly optimistic they could be the key to unlocking a cure for the disease.

With microgravity and cosmic radiation offering conditions impossible to replicate on Earth, space is fast emerging as a new frontier for drug discovery and development, yielding new insights and breakthroughs which would be otherwise out of reach.

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