A fatal, highly hereditary illness with no disease-modifying treatments, Huntington’s is long overdue for a therapeutic win.

HD is a rare, adult-onset, autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disease. George Huntington (Figure 1 ... precisely determine the number of CAG repeats present in the HTT gene ...

Researchers have identified a groundbreaking link between the CHCHD2 gene and Huntington’s disease (HD), a genetic ...

Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by an abnormal expansion of a CAG repeat in the huntingtin ( HTT) gene. The primary genetic determinant of the age at ...

The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains and higher IQ ...

Researchers developed a polymer that delivers peptides to prevent toxic protein aggregation in Huntington’s disease. The ...

A polymer has been developed to optimize the use of a peptide to treat Huntington’s disease in mice.

The third day focuses on Huntington’s disease families, where they get to hear from the ... and combatting somatic ...

The past four years have brought disappointment for the Huntington’s community, but optimism is growing as companies ...

The defect that causes the neurodegenerative disease Huntington's has been corrected in patients for the first time, the BBC has learned. An experimental drug, injected into spinal fluid ...