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2025 HDBuzz Prize: MR-“why” am I feeling this way? How MRI is helping us understand why people with HD may sometimes be unaware of their symptoms
We’re proud to announce Jenna Hanrahan as a 2025 HDBuzz Prize winner! People with HD may be unaware of their symptoms, not out of denial but due to real changes in the brain. MRI scans give new clues about what is going on.
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2025 HDBuzz Prize: Calm Before the Storm: Early Clues of Huntington’s Disease Found in Brainwaves
We’re proud to announce Eva Woods as a 2025 HDBuzz Prize winner! Scientists spotted small brainwave changes in people with HD before symptoms begin. These early electrical “whispers” of HD could help track effects years before diagnosis.
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The 2025 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers Is Open!
Announcing the 2025 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers – sponsored by the Hereditary Disease Foundation!
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2024 HDBuzz Prize: A NEAT new dance partner for Huntingtin
We’re proud to announce AJ Keefe as our last HDBuzz Prize winner of 2024! Our cells are an intricate choreography between various molecular dancers. Knowing who moves well with whom, and how that changes with disease, could help advance drugs for HD.
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2024 HDBuzz Prize: Social Skills – The Hidden Gem in Improving Quality of Life for People with Huntington's disease?
We're proud to announce Molly Gracey as a 2024 HDBuzz Prize winner! Could social skills be the secret ingredient to a better quality of life in people with #HuntingtonsDisease? Clues suggest these 'hidden gems' impact #QualityOfLife in HD.
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2024 HDBuzz Prize: Thinking beyond therapies – it’s time to consider racial disparity in HD care and research
We're proud to announce Dr. Zanna Voysey as a 2024 HDBuzz Prize winner! She shares a new study that details racial disparities in HD care and research. Addressing this could improve the lives of people living with HD in the here-and-now.
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Announcing the 2024 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers!
The 2024 #HDBuzz Prize for Young #Science Writers opened this summer. We’ll bring you #HuntingtonsDisease #research articles from the winners through the next few months, sharing fresh voices on HDBuzz. (Trophy not included.)
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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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Joint HDBuzz Prizewinner: Yeast studies suggest a new way to protect cells from 'oxidative damage'
Researchers identify Gpx1, a protein that may be protective in HD. An existing drug can mimic its antioxidant effect.
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Joint HDBuzz Prizewinner: Pennies for your neurons — copper’s bad influence on Huntington’s disease
There is copper in your brain! Check out how copper and the Huntington’s disease protein are partners in crime.