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Sheep leading the flock: metabolism and biomarkers in HD
Sheep can help us to identify HD biomarkers and recognize metabolic changes that occur before symptoms develop.
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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?
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Pfizer Amaryllis trial ends in disappointment: no improvement in Huntington's disease symptoms
Pfizer announces the 'Amaryllis' trial of a PDE-10 inhibitor drug failed to improve symptoms of HD
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Important advances in next generation genome editing tools for Huntington's Disease
Work with genome editing techniques (zinc fingers and CRISPR) brings these tools closer to use in HD clinical trials
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Sorry folks, the PRIDE-HD trial did NOT show that Pridopidine slows the progression of Huntington's disease
HDBuzz helps untangle some bold claims about the just-announced results of the PRIDE-HD trial of pridopidine in HD
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EuroBuzz 2016: The Euro-HD Network Meeting in The Hague
All our tweets from #EHDN2016 in one mega-article
HDBuzz Trial Tracker
Progress update for NCT06585449 – A Study to Evaluate ALN-HTT02
Additional insights from Phase 2 study results and update on plans for Phase 3 trial for votoplam
Updates from the ongoing placebo-controlled Phase 2/3 FALCON-HD trial
Previously featured
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A Window into the Eyes: Using Ocular Biomarkers to Track Progression in Huntington’s Disease
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A Fault In The Supercomputer
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Split Between Two Worlds: The Psychological Challenges for People at Risk of Huntington’s Disease
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Putting it in print: oral drug branaplam lowered huntingtin, but safety concerns halted development
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A hitch in the stitch reveals why DNA sequence patterns matter in Huntington’s disease
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