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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TRACK-HD reveals significant changes in pre-symptomatic HD mutation carriers and patients The one-year report from the TRACK-HD study demonstrates a number of changes in pre-symptomatic HD-mutation ...

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The HDBuzz editorial team had a virtual sit-down with HDBuzz founder, editor emeritus, Huntington’s disease (HD) researcher, and neurologist Professor Ed Wild. We laughed, we cried… actually we just ...

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 ...