Huntington's Disease News

Posted February 13, 2012:

• Huntington Disease Breakthrough: New Potential Therapy That Restores Motor Function Being Planned for Clinical Trial

Posted January 19, 2012:

• Investigators Achieve Important Step Toward Treating Huntington's Disease

Posted December 18, 2011:

• Regulatory Enzyme Overexpression May Protect Against Neurodegeneration in Huntington's Disease

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Melatonin Delays Onset, Reduces Deaths in Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease

Posted August 8, 2011:

• Drug Development in the Blink of an Eye

Posted July 22, 2011:

• Cellular Stress Can Induce Yeast to Promote Prion Formation

Posted July 18, 2011:

• AMPK Amplifies Huntington's Disease

Posted June 23, 2011:

• A Step Toward Controlling Huntington's Disease? Potential New Way of Blocking Activity of Gene That Causes HD
• Compound May Provide Drug Therapy Approach for Huntington's Disease

Posted June 2, 2011:

• Novel Drug Alleviates Symptoms in Huntington's and Alzheimer's Mice
• Huntington's Disease Breakthrough: New Research Offers Promise of Medical Intervention

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Two Gene Classes Linked to New Prion Formation

Posted May 18, 2011:

• Neutrons Provide First Sub-Nanoscale Snapshots of Huntington's Disease Protein

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Novel Mouse Model Provides Insight Into Rare Neurodegenerative Disease

Posted April 11, 2011:

• Biologists Find Another Clue to the Origins of Degenerative Diseases

Posted April 5, 2011:

• Huntington's Disease Protein Has Broader Effects on Brain, Study Shows

Posted February 22, 2011:

• Huntington's Disease Advance: Overactive Protein Triggers a Chain Reaction That Causes Brain Nerve Cells to Die

Posted February 18, 2011:

• How Disordered Proteins Spread from Cell to Cell, Potentially Spreading Disease

Posted January 18, 2011:

• How Protein Aggregation Can Lead to Neurodegenerative Diseases

Posted December 7, 2010:

• Novel Compounds Show Early Promise in Treatment of Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Natural Compound Shows Promise Against Huntington's Disease

Posted August 25, 2010:

• Early Diagnosis of Degenerative Brain Disorders: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Can Distinguish Between Neurological Diseases in Patients Without Clear Symptoms

Posted August 11, 2010:

• Research Links Huntingtin to Neurogenesis

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Proteins Linked With Alzheimer's, Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Found to Clump in Normal Aging

Posted July 29, 2010:

• New Pathway to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases

Posted July 28, 2010:

• Leap Forward in Efforts to Develop Treatments for Huntington's Disease
• Huntington's Disease Discovery Provides New Hope for Treatment

Posted July 23, 2010:

• Huntington's Disease Greatly Underestimated in the UK, Experts Say
• Novel Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Huntington’s Disease

Posted July 21, 2010:

• Every Action Has a Beginning and an End (and It's All in You Brain)

Posted May 21, 2010:

• Scientists Make Important Step Toward Stopping Plaque-Like Formations in Huntington's Disease

Posted February 23, 2010:

• Protecting the Brain from Huntington's Disease

Posted February 8, 2010:

• Drug Shows Promise for Huntington's Disease

Posted February 2, 2010:

• Three Brain Diseases Linked by Toxic Form of Same Neural Protein

Posted January 27, 2010:

• Discovery of Mechanism in Brain Cell Injury in Huntington's Offers New Treatment Approaches

Posted January 19, 2010:

• Compounds That Help Protect Nerve Cells Discovered

Posted December 23, 2009:

• Subtle Change Dramatically Reduces Pathogenic Potential of Huntington's Protein

Posted November 15, 2009:

• Potential Treatment for Huntington's Disease

Posted October 31, 2009:

• Gene Therapy Stalls Development Of Huntington's Disease In Mice

Posted August 19, 2009:

• Watching Stem Cells Repair The Human Brain

Posted August 4, 2009:

• Abnormal Brain Circuits May Prevent Movement Disorder

Posted July 20, 2009:

• Transplanted Neurons Develop Disease-Like Pathology In Huntington's Patients

Posted June 9, 2009:

• Individuals With Family History Of Genetic Disease At Risk Of Discrimination

Posted June 4, 2009:

• Mystery Solved: Tiny Protein-Activator Responsible For Brain Cell Damage In Huntington Disease

Posted April 20, 2009:

• Huntington's Disease: Gene Therapy Offers New Hope For Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Disorder

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Huntington Disease Begins To Take Hold Early On

Posted April 2, 2009:

• Modification Of Mutant Huntingtin Protein Increases Its Clearance From Brain Cells

Posted January 21, 2009:

• Plant DNA Finding Sheds Light On Human Neurological Genetic Diseases

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