The brain has plans in place when fires break out. Normally, a molecule called PKD1 rushes in to the rescue, but in ...

To date, the GeM-HD consortium has studied thousands of people with HD and hundreds of thousands of spelling changes in every ...

DNA-based drugs called antisense oligonucleotides, or ASOs, are now in multiple clinical trials in Huntington’s disease, aiming to lower production of the harmful mutant huntingtin protein in the ...

This week, we heard an update from Roche about their huntingtin-lowering therapy, tominersen, currently being tested in the GENERATION HD2 trial. An independent data monitoring committee (iDMC) that ...

Researchers have updated the system that classifies Huntington’s disease progression. Tracking progression in 4 stages will make clinical trial screening and data interpretation easier and faster, and ...

A new study led by researchers from University College London has helped uncover some of the earliest changes that happen in people with the gene for Huntington’s disease (HD), long before obvious ...

Good morning from the final day of the 2018 HD Therapeutics Conference! Two sessions today, the first focused on the protein made from the HD gene. The second includes updates on Huntingtin Lowering ...

At the end of day 1 of the European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN) conference, the HDBuzz team (minus one) sat down for a zoom chat with the team at Roche to have a frank, candid discussion about ...

A highly-anticipated scientific paper has landed! This new work challenges current theories in Huntington’s disease research, uncovering how runaway CAG repeats erode cell identity in certain types of ...

Hello from Palm Springs! The HDBuzz team are here and ready to report on all of the exciting science that we are going to hear over the next 3 days from HD experts who have travelled from all over the ...

Imagine a tiny, microscopic surgeon moving through the body, making precise genetic repairs exactly where they’re needed. That’s the vision behind a groundbreaking new gene-editing delivery system ...