This gene contains the instructions for making the huntingtin proteinhuntingtin protein The protein produced by the HD gene..

6 min read | A new study suggests that reduced awareness of symptoms, known as anosognosia, may appear even in the earliest ...

Among the problems faced by people with Huntington’s disease (HD), a common one is weight loss. Many individuals with the disease lose weight over time, even when they are trying to eat enough. This ...

Today, Roche announced in a community letter difficult news for the Huntington’s disease (HD) community, discontinuing two separate clinical programmes after new data emerged from ongoing studies. The ...

Huntington’s disease researchers have been eagerly awaiting a new PET. No, not a puppy or a kitten or even a pet turtle, but a PET tracer to visualize huntingtin (HTTHTT one abbreviation for the gene ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) involves the loss of cells in the striatum, an area of the brain that plays important roles in movement, cognition, and behaviour. For decades, researchers have been ...

A recent collaboration between researchers at the University of Leiden and the Huntington Expertise Center Topaz Overduin in the Netherlands has focused on an important yet often overlooked part of ...

Skyhawk Therapeuticstherapeutics treatments has announced by press release new 12-month data from their Phase 1/2 trial of SKY-0515, an experimental oral treatment for Huntington’s disease (HD). The ...

⏱️ 5 min read | A recent study suggests that strengthening the brain’s own clean-up system could slow Huntington’s disease. Cells in our body have a trash-disposal system to remove any damaged or ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by a repetition of the genetic letters C-A-G in the huntingtin gene. People who won’t develop HD have 35 or fewer CAGs, whereas people who go on to develop HD have ...

⏱️ 9 min read |New research in a HD mouse model points to a key culprit: a small fragment called HTT1a. Lowering HTT1a levels successfully delayed disease signs in mice that model HD, perhaps shaping ...

When you care for someone with Huntington’s disease (HD), you will be familiar with medical terms such as progressive, inherited, and ...