Participants in a PET study received the tracer, then gave it time to reach the brain. Then they laid in a scanner that took ...

Over time, the neighborhood falls into disrepair. A critical protein that MSNs need to stay alive, called DARPP-32, starts to ...

Spark Therapeutics, recently integrated into Roche Pharmaceuticals, has been working on an HD gene therapy. It’s delivered via a one-time brain surgery and is designed to lower levels of the ...

The latest instalment in a series of big studies to understand the genetics of Huntington disease (HD) just hit the shelves. These studies have focused on how small changes in the genetic letters of a ...

Welcome to your June roundup of the latest and greatest Huntington’s disease (HD) research, served up fresh and easy to digest! This month, we’ve got gene therapies revving up, brain wiring revealing ...

Scientists are working to understand some of the earliest changes to DNA repair caused by Huntington’s disease (HD) – insights that could help uncover new therapeutics and new ways to target somatic ...

For Huntington’s disease (HD), a lot of attention goes to the genetic change that causes HD, but new research is shining a light on something else – our epigenome. The word literally means, “above” ...

Imagine the gene that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) as a vast river. At its source is the CAG repeat – a genetic letter code that dictates how the river will flow. As the river moves downstream, it ...

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