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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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Oz Buzz Updates: Day 1
Day 1 of our coverage of the Huntington's disease World Congress 2011 in Melbourne
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Stand By for Oz Buzz
Follow @HDBuzzFeed and send your questions for the World Congress on Huntington's disease
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Ten golden rules for reading a scientific news story
Avoid the hype: HDBuzz presents ten 'golden rules' for reading a news story or press release about Huntington's disea
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Protein-folding drug helps HD mice… for a while
A drug that activates an ancient cellular defense mechanism slows down HD in mice – but why didn’t the benefit last?
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A back-to-front hidden message in the HD gene?
Unzip your genes! A backwards message, hidden in the 'backup DNA' of the Huntington's disease gene… what does it me
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Stem cells and HD: past, present and future
Stem cells – who needs 'em? Scientists make brain cells from skin cells. Could this help HD?
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Coming soon from the HD World Congress: Oz Buzz!
Announcing 'Oz Buzz' – hot science news from the 2011 HD World Congress – with Ed Wild, Jeff Carroll & Charles Sabine
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Therapeutics conference videos now online
Videos of the scientific presentations from February's Huntington's disease therapeutics conference are now online
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Cut-and-paste DNA: fixing mutations with 'genome editing'
Scientists make precise changes to the DNA of a live animal. Could it work for human genetic diseases?
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Caffeine, cannabis and caution
Does caffeine accelerate Huntington's disease? Does cannabis slow it down? HDBuzz looks behind the headlines
