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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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The brain in Huntington's disease: greater than the sum of its parts?
An important new study asks the question: what parts of the brain might need most help in HD?
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NUB1: enhancing clearance to decrease mutant huntingtin
NUB1 increases mutant huntingtin removal from cells, reducing the toxic effects of HD in fruit flies
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Could HD be caused by amino acid deficiency?
Does a specific amino acid deficiency contribute to the development of HD?
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Raptor announces results of cysteamine trial for Huntington's disease
Raptor Pharmaceuticals announces intermediate results from a long-term study of cysteamine in Huntington's disease
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Sleep, cilia and HD
New studies shed some light on the function of sleep in animals, with interesting implications for HD research
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2014: day 3
Biomarkers and preparing for trials: the third & final day of the 2014 Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2014: day 2
Cells, circuits and systems: day 2 of the 2014 HD Therapeutics conference
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2014: day 1
HDBuzz reports from the opening day of science sessions at the 2014 HD Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs.
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Prana announces results of Reach2HD trial of PBT2 for Huntington's disease
Results are in for a clinical trial testing the drug PBT2 for HD. Are the claims in the announcement justified?
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Does high-dose creatine "slow the onset" of Huntington's Disease?
A new study claims that high-dose creatine "slows the onset of Huntington Disease". How much hope and how much hype?
