Huntington's Disease News
May 21, 2024
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Nov. 8, 2023 Huntington's disease causes involuntary movements and dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. Scientists have now shown they can slow its progression in flies and worms, opening the door to human ...
Oct. 2, 2023 A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. New research may have found a way to 'copy' the mechanism for application in human ...
Aug. 17, 2023 An international team of scientists has discovered an additional potential cause of the genetic mutations that result in rare neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington's ...
May 19, 2023 The drug valbenazine statistically improves chorea, a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington's disease, when compared to a ...
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Apr. 3, 2023 A lower body temperature is one of the most effective mechanisms to prolong the lifespan of animals. New research has now described precisely how this works. The scientists show that cold can prevent ...
Jan. 20, 2023 Neuroscientists find two distinct cell populations in the striatum are affected differently by Huntington's disease. They believe neurodegeneration of one of these populations leads to motor ...
Oct. 28, 2022 A study shows that as patients age, Huntington's disease impairs autophagy, which eliminates waste from cells. This housekeeping is significant in Huntington's because a buildup of waste in a ...
Aug. 30, 2022 A growing body of research suggests that the disease may also flow from defects in glia, important support cells found in the brain. The new study expands our understanding of the underlying ...
Aug. 17, 2022 Researchers have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder ...
Feb. 16, 2022 Huntington's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and multiple other neurodegenerative diseases share a commonality: they are all characterized by proteins (different ones for each disease) aggregating in neurons ...
Feb. 15, 2022 Researchers created a comprehensive atlas of the types of cells found in the brain cerebrovasculature, which provides oxygen and nutrients to the brain and helps form the blood-brain barrier. They ...
Oct. 5, 2021 The findings shed new light on the root causes of this disease, which leads to the degeneration of neurons in ...
Aug. 19, 2021 Proteins are the 'tools' of our cells – they are essential to all vital tasks. However, they are only able to do their jobs if they fold correctly and adopt their respective, very specific 3D ...
July 7, 2021 In a new study on mice, researchers report that using MRI scans to measure blood volume in the brain can serve as a noninvasive way to potentially ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 2, 2022 A new platform takes on Huntington's disease via an innovative ...
Feb. 2, 2022 Researchers have developed a new mouse model of Huntington's disease that recapitulates more Huntington's disease-like characteristics than earlier models, providing new clues to the ...
Sep. 7, 2021 Psychiatric and cognitive symptoms emerge at an early stage in Huntington's disease. However, research so far has mainly focused on movement impairment, a symptom associated with the more ...
June 29, 2021 Researchers have identified a new treatment candidate that appears to not only halt neurodegenerative symptoms in mouse models of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, but also reverse the effects ...
June 24, 2021 Glia affected by Huntington's disease respond by tuning down synapse genes, which has a protective ...