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Lowenna Waters

The answer to detecting motor neurone disease a decade early may lie in your poo

Scientists have been researching tissue biopsies

(Picture: David Davies/PA Wire)

Proteins thought to contribute to motor neurone disease (MND) can be found in the gut many years before brain symptoms occur, research has revealed.

A study carried out by the University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, and published by the Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, has found evidence of the disease in one patient 14 years before they developed the condition.

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