Huntington's Disease News
January 21, 2025
Top Headlines
Jan. 17, 2025 — Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains and higher IQ ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have identified a key biochemical mechanism relevant to the development of Huntington's Disease. This discovery opens up the possibility of studying the disease before its clinical onset ...
Latest Headlines
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Sep. 27, 2024 — Researchers have made an important Huntington's disease discovery. They have found that the protein mutated in patients with Huntington's disease ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — Researchers have implicated a new gene in the progression of Huntington's disease in a brain organoid model. The gene may contribute to brain abnormalities much earlier than previously ...
June 10, 2024 — The genetic disease Huntington's not only affects nerve cells in the brain but also has widespread effects on microscopic blood vessels according to research. These changes to the vasculature were ...
Nov. 8, 2023 — Huntington's disease causes involuntary movements and dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. Scientists have now shown they can slow its progression in flies and worms, opening the door to human ...
Oct. 2, 2023 — A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. New research may have found a way to 'copy' the ...
Aug. 17, 2023 — An international team of scientists has discovered an additional potential cause of the genetic mutations that result in rare neurodegenerative ...
May 19, 2023 — The drug valbenazine statistically improves chorea, a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington's disease, when compared to a ...
Apr. 3, 2023 — A lower body temperature is one of the most effective mechanisms to prolong the lifespan of animals. New research has now described precisely how this works. The scientists show that cold can prevent ...
Jan. 20, 2023 — Neuroscientists find two distinct cell populations in the striatum are affected differently by Huntington's disease. They believe neurodegeneration of one of these populations leads to motor ...
Oct. 28, 2022 — A study shows that as patients age, Huntington's disease impairs autophagy, which eliminates waste from cells. This housekeeping is significant in Huntington's because a buildup of waste in a ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 2, 2022 — A new platform takes on Huntington's disease via an innovative ...
Aug. 30, 2022 — A growing body of research suggests that the disease may also flow from defects in glia, important support cells found in the brain. The new study expands our understanding of the underlying ...
Aug. 17, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington's ...
Feb. 16, 2022 — Huntington's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and multiple other neurodegenerative diseases share a commonality: they are all characterized by proteins (different ones for each disease) aggregating in ...
Feb. 15, 2022 — Researchers created a comprehensive atlas of the types of cells found in the brain cerebrovasculature, which provides oxygen and nutrients to the brain and helps form the blood-brain barrier. They ...
Feb. 2, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new mouse model of Huntington's disease that recapitulates more Huntington's disease-like characteristics than earlier models, providing new clues to the ...