Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Key Takeaways Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that you can inherit ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are ...

Scientists engineered stem cells with “interrupted” CAG repeats to break up the toxic stretch. This may stop expansion, and could improve problems in cells that model Huntington’s disease. This study ...

This year saw notable progress in head and neck cancers, Huntington's disease, personalized genetic therapy, and heart ...

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

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 ...

Northern Scotland has one of the highest rates of Huntington’s disease globally, according to new research from the University of Aberdeen. For the first time in 35 years, scientists have accurately ...

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 ...

Huntington’s disease is a brain disorder that can affect various functions, including the ability to swallow — particularly as the disease progresses. Huntington’s disease is a neurogenerative ...

UCL and uniQure report the first treatment to slow Huntington’s disease with gene therapy AMT-130. High-dose patients had 75% less progression over three years compared with standard care. uniQure ...