British scientists have given a major boost to hopes of living longer with motor neurone disease, the degenerative illness that most famously afflicted physicist Stephen Hawking.
A trial shows that injections of a protein used to treat kidney cancer may slow MND’s spread and increase survival chances by 70 per cent.
‘These remarkable results are a real breakthrough,’ said Timothy Tree, Professor of Immune Regulation and Immunotherapy at King’s College, London.
