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2025: Year in Review
Latest News
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Break Up With Your CAGs: How Three Letters Could Change Huntington’s Disease
Scientists engineered stem cells with “interrupted” CAG repeats to break up the toxic stretch. This may stop expansion, and could improve problems in cells that model Huntington’s disease. This study suggests that DNA spelling can drive the disease.
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mTORC1 tips the scales in Huntington’s disease mice
Weighing the scales on mTORC1: A possible new target for HD therapeutics?
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Can this synthetic oil help feed the brain in Huntington's disease?
A new study shows a synthetic oil called triheptanoin changes how HD brains use energy. But will it help HD?
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Positive results announced for re-worked tetrabenazine drug in Huntington's disease
Modified 'heavy hydrogen' form of tetrabenazine appears safe and effective for chorea in Huntington's disease
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Turning skin cells into brain cells: a Huntington's disease research breakthrough?
Scientists can now change human skin cells into working neurons, like the ones that are most affected in HD.
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Huntington's disease clinical trial announcement: huntingtin-lowering drug to enter Phase I trial in 2015
A clinical trial for an exciting therapy against HD is planned for 2015. The first step is to make sure it is safe.
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Largest creatine clinical trial for Huntington's disease halted after 'futility' analysis
CREST-E, a trial of the supplement creatine, has been stopped after an early analysis found it couldn't show benefit
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Should we worry about a huntingtin invasion?
Cool lab experiments show the huntington's disease protein jumping between cells. Does this matter for HD patients?
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EuroBuzz 2014 Video, day one
Video of our first live session at the European Huntington's Disease Network Meeting.
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EuroBuzz 2014 Video, day two
Video of our second live session at the European Huntington's Disease Network Meeting.
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Melatonin alterations in Huntington's disease help explain trouble with sleep
Study shows HD patients have decreased levels of melatonin, which may explain why so many suffer from sleep problems
