Apathy in people with Huntington’s disease (HD) isn’t just a lack of interest or motivation, it is a loss of drive, initiative, and emotional responsiveness that affects not only what the person with ...

HDBuzz has always been free to read, and we intend to keep it that way. But free to read doesn’t mean free to run. As an ...

Long repetitive sequences of C-A-G letters in the DNA code are associated with at least 12 genetic diseases, including Huntington’s disease (HD). A group of scientists in Massachusetts, USA, have ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by a repetition of the genetic letters C-A-G in the huntingtin gene. People who won’t develop HD have 35 or fewer CAGs, whereas people who go on to develop HD have ...

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has become an everyday feature of the world we live in. Internet browsers have an ‘AI mode’ and even our refrigerators and vacuum cleaners now include AI features!

In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community.

Transplanting healthy human glial cells into HD mouse brains improved movement, memory, and survival. Even more strikingly, the glia coaxed diseased neurons to behave more like healthy ones, offering ...

Two individuals with the same CAG repeat count can have vastly different HD journeys. A new study looking at individuals with 36-42 repeats shows that DNA sequence patterns play a major role in ...

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.

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 ...