The Huntington’s disease mutation worsens over time like a dangerous snowball. By harnessing the power of the gene editing tool CRISPR, scientists may have found a way to interrupt the HD mutation and ...

This is a bit like a detective catching a villain earlier in a mystery, before they cause more havoc. The HDDMS gives doctors and researchers a sharper magnifying glass to track the disease’s subtle ...

Transplanting healthy human glial cells into HD mouse brains improved movement, memory, and survival. Even more strikingly, the glia coaxed diseased neurons to behave more like healthy ones, offering ...

Simon Says isn’t just a game, it’s a window into early HD! In this study, tiny thumb twitches reveal how attention slips ...

A recent study used miniature 3D brain models grown from stem cells to explore how the genetic change that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) might impact early brain development, before neurons even ...

A recent publication discusses a non-invasive way of measuring levels of expanded HTT protein in the brain, using an imaging tool called a PET tracer. The results were variable, but there’s still a ...

Picture a quiet neighborhood. Things used to run smoothly here. Kids played outside, front yards were mowed, and the neurons — the longtime residents — looked out for one another. But lately, fires ...

Genetic mutations occur everyday in our cells, but the vast majority of them are repaired. New research finds DNA repair is not on PAR in HD cells, causing mutations to build up in people with HD.

Huntington’s disease disrupts genetic "traffic lights," keeping genes green when they should be red. These genetic traffic jams may act to speed brain cell aging and faulty traffic cops fail to stop ...

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 ...

On May 5th, PTC Therapeutics released results from their ongoing Phase 2 PIVOT-HD clinical trial for PTC-518, now called votoplam. Excitingly, they announced that this trial met its primary endpoint – ...

We all know heart health matters – but what if the same habits that keep your heart strong could also protect your brain? A new study reveals a link between cardiovascular health and lower levels of ...