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Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner set new course records as they completed an all-Swiss sweep of the London Marathon wheelchair titles. Four-time champion Hug defended his 2021 crown in one hour, 24 minutes and 38 seconds, holding off a late overtake attempt by American Daniel Romanchuk. Debrunner won her first London title in one hour,

A research team led by Dr. Tania Rizo and Prof. Dr. Beate Winner have developed an innovative approach: they take skin cells from those affected, reprogram them into stem cells, then subsequently reprogram these cells into brain cells that they can use for research purposes. With the support of the Förderverein für HSP Forschung, the

For the first time, scientists will be able to test therapeutics for a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases that affect infants and young children thanks to a new research model created by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases caused by genetic mutations. They lead tens