Years ago, Australian scientist Justin Yerbury had an idea he hoped would lead to a treatment for motor neurone disease.

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He wanted to find and systematically destroy the problematic proteins that mutate inside the nerve cells of people with the fatal progressive condition, eventually causing muscle weakness, paralysis and death.

Professor Justin Yerbury's friend and colleague Dr Christen Chisholm, published a world-first proof-of-concept study in the prestigious academic journal Nature Communications. Pictures by University of Wollongong

This would be a radical undertaking: Justin

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