The new twist in this latest study from Brazil is where the stem cells come from. Researchers used human dental pulp stem cells, collected from the soft tissue inside teeth, to create an experimental ...
October was an insight-rich month in Huntington’s disease research: additional clarity around uniQure’s AMT-130, mapping how and where HD changes the brain, early mechanistic studies targeting DNA ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) develops when people have a repetition of the genetic letters C-A-G in their huntingtin gene. People with 40 or more repeats will develop the disease during their lifetime, ...
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Multiple new studies have identified what may be the most important new fact about the genetics of Huntington’s disease since the gene was discovered in 1993. At least two research groups around the ...
For those who were following the live tweets from HDBuzz about the CHDI HD Therapeutics Conference or tuned in to the HDSA Convention, we may have caught your attention with the new HD staging system.
Last month, we relayed positive news from uniQure’s trial testing AMT-130, a gene therapy delivered via brain surgery to lower huntingtin (HTT). Data released by uniQure in June suggested AMT-130 was ...
HDBuzz: 2024 was a big year for HD research, particularly in the clinical space. Which breakthroughs or advances in HD research from the past year are you particularly excited about? HDBuzz Editors-in ...
This week, we heard an update from Roche about their huntingtin-lowering therapy, tominersen, currently being tested in the GENERATION HD2 trial. An independent data monitoring committee (iDMC) that ...
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On 25th June 2024, Wave Life Sciences shared the results of their SELECT-HD clinical trial. This trial tested a therapy called WVE-003, designed to only lower the expanded, harmful form of the ...