clinical-trial
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Oral drug may change the story for huntingtin lowering
8 min read
Researchers with PTC Therapeutics recently published exciting new findings – a promising new huntingtin lowering drug that can be taken as a pill. Will this change how we move forward with huntingtin lowering?
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Finding the silver lining: an update on the Roche GENERATION-HD1 trial data
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The first round of findings from the halted tominersen huntingtin lowering trial, GENERATION-HD1, run by Roche were shared this week with the HD community. HDBuzz explains what they found and what’s next.
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KINECT-HD trial shows valbenazine improves involuntary movements in Huntington's disease
7 min read
In a much-needed bit of good news for the Huntington's disease community, Neurocrine Bioscience's KINECT-HD trial showed that treatment with valbenazine significantly reduced the involuntary movements called chorea
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Updates from the EHDN Meeting 2021
9 min read
Last month, HDBuzz attended the online European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) meeting. Read our summary of all the latest clinical trial updates.
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Real talk: Q&A with Roche about GENERATION-HD1
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The HDBuzz team sat down (virtually) for an in depth Q&A session with the team at Roche to answer questions about tominersen and the recent halting of the GENERATION-HD1 trial
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Unpacking recent gene therapy press
10 min read
Voyager Therapeutics is shifting towards a new technology to deliver gene therapy and away from a planned HD clinical trial. But this could lead to less invasive drugs in the long run, and many other companies are working on HD gene therapies.
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A first for CRISPR gene editing could have wider applications for human disease
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A successful early trial of a drug for Familial Transthyretic Amyloidosis showed that CRISPR gene editing could be safely used in the human body. What does this mean for gene editing in HD?
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Huntington's disease therapeutics conference 2021 – Day 3
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Catch up on all of the latest updates from day 3 of the 2021 CHDI Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference #HDTC2021
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Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference 2021 – Day 1
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Catch up on all of the latest updates from day 1 of the 2021 CHDI Huntington’s disease therapeutics conference #HDTC2021 including presentations from Wave, Roche and Triplet.
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Huntington’s disease clinical trial round up
12 min read
Catch up on all the latest Huntington's disease clinical trial news in this one stop shop article covering all of the recent developments in making medicines for Huntington's disease