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September 2026: This month in Huntington’s disease research
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September brought progress across the HD research landscape. From brain waves and visual thinking to DNA repeats, nutrition, inclusive care, new technologies, and encouraging SKY-0515 data, we round up a busy month in Huntington’s disease research.
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Success! ASO drug reduces levels of mutant protein in Huntington's disease patients
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Amazing news from Ionis and Roche! HTTRx drug successfully lowers harmful huntingtin protein in spinal fluid
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Switch off the genome editor when you’re done
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CRISPR genome editing just got an off-switch. We cut through the hype to explore the technology in HD
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A new way of thinking about trials to prevent Huntington's disease
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Can we test drugs to delay or prevent the onset of Huntington's disease? New research suggests it's possible
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New roles for huntingtin: removing a healthy protein to understand its function
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Completely removing normal huntingtin in adults may disrupt healthy brain function, a recent study suggests.
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Precision huntingtin-lowering drug trials target the mutant protein
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WAVE Life Sciences launches PRECISION clinical trial to suppress the mutant Huntington's disease protein
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A step forward for gene editing: CRISPR-Cas9 and HD
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Evolving CRISPR-Cas9 techniques can now be used to edit the HD gene in a living mouse brain.
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Update confirms Huntington's disease 'gene silencing' trial on track
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Ionis says its trial of HTTRx, intended to lower huntingtin protein, is fully recruited and plans to extend it
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New study reveals a potential HD biomarker
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A potential HD biomarker has been uncovered in a recent clinical study
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Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference 2017 – Day 3
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HDBuzz summarises final day of the 2017 Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference in Malta

