Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully treated someone suffering from Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic illness ...

For decades, so many families have watched loved ones suffer from Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that progressively worsens over time. But now, there is finally a light at the end ...

Scientists at Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for Huntington's disease, an incurable, debilitating illness that causes nerve cells ...

Huntington's disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a progressive, hereditary brain disease that affects movement, cognition and emotions.

Gene therapy is becoming a powerful way to treat challenging diseases that don’t respond to traditional treatments, and researchers now report the first success in modifying genes to slow Huntington’s ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

ST. LOUIS — Scientists may have reached a breakthrough in the fight against Huntington’s disease, a rare and fatal inherited brain disorder with no cure. For the first time, a gene therapy has been ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or stop disease progression. Research has identified a critical DNA repair ...