Researchers have detected early changes in brain scans and biomarkers in young people with the Huntington’s disease gene, 20 years before symptoms are predicted to appear. These findings could help develop medicines to treat HD earlier in life.
As we begin 2025, we look back on all of the Huntington’s disease research news and progress the field has made in the last 12 months.
Is someone cutting onions? Expanded huntingtin can now be detected in tears to help scientists track disease progression.
Check out research updates from Day 3 of the 2022 HD Therapeutics Conference #HDTC2023
Read updates from clinical trials and scientific research on Huntington’s disease from Day 1 of the 2022 HDF Milton Wexler Biennial Symposium #HDF2022
uniQure is conducting safety trials of the first gene therapy for HD. A recent press release provided a 1 year update on the first group of 10 people who underwent surgery to receive this experimental drug. Let’s talk more about what it means.
A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins describes a non-invasive way to track progression of Huntington’s disease. This could be used before patients even start showing symptoms to help test treatments in early stages of disease.
We know that HD-related changes can occur many years before symptom onset, but how early do those changes begin? A team of researchers set out to determine that with a new comprehensive study in pre-manifest HD young adults.
HDBuzz reports from the annual Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference in Palm Springs