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

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

Subtle signs of neurodegeneration can be detected in blood, CSF, and neuroimaging, up to 20 years before the motor symptoms ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The HDBuzz team caught up with editor emeritus and Huntington's disease specialist, Prof Ed Wild to hear his thoughts on what ...

As of 2022, there are only 340 domestic patients with this rare disease. Huntington's disease takes about 15 to 20 years from diagnosis to death. While it was known that a mutation in the Huntington ...