Symptoms of Huntington's disease appear late in life. Research reveals how DNA repeats grow toxic over time, explaining the ...

Beta blockers were associated with later appearance of motor symptoms and slower symptom worsening, but an outside expert ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been ...

Could viral infections play a role in Huntington's disease? Research suggests Apolipoprotein B mRNA editing catalytic ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

A new study of nerve cells affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that the disease-causing gene slowly expands over ...

APOBEC enzymes, which normally help fight viral infections by mutating viral DNA, cause repeat expansions and are unusually ...

Huntington’s disease kills a population of cells called ... When large numbers of these cells die, patients develop involuntary movements in the arms, legs, and face, and many patients also ...

People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time.