Latest News
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Worms to the Rescue: Separating the Good, the Bad, and the Clumpy Huntingtin
⏱️ 7 min read | A team of researchers developed a simple platform to test how toxic different types of HTT protein clumps are using a laboratory worm model. They showed that certain types of clumps are harmful to the worms, while others are not.
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2017 – Day 2
HDBuzz summarises all the science from the 2017 Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference in Malta – day 2
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2017 – Day 1
HDBuzz summarises all the science from the 2017 Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference in Malta – day 1
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Enemy at the gates – huntingtin disrupts nuclear transport
Two recent studies show how a cellular border control system goes wrong in HD, opening new avenues for HD research.
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FDA approves a new drug for symptoms of Huntington's disease
Deutetrabenazine becomes the first new drug in a decade licensed by the FDA for symptoms of Huntington's disease
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Weeding out the truth: can cannabis improve Huntington’s?
What can individual experiences with cannabis tell us about Huntington's disease?
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Huntingtin grabs a hammer: DNA repair in HD
Huntingtin helps fix damaged DNA, a recent study suggests, under the direction of a gene repair protein called ATM.
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The benefits of migration, highlighted in Huntington's disease
Is HD a developmental disease? HD stops neurons migrating in developing brain, but maybe we can get them going again
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Treasure your exceptions – using outliers to understand Huntington's disease onset and progression
A new study provides the framework for finding factors that affect the onset and progression of HD
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A powerful message: does a toxic RNA message molecule cause harm in Huntington's disease?
What if some problems in HD were due to something other than a harmful protein?

