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 ...

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

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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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 ...