People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time. The cause is related to expansion of repeating DNA units, in which ...

For many people, the symptoms of Huntington's disease will not begin to show for decades.The genetic disorder is incurable ...

Published in Cell, the study titled, “Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” ...

But Huntington’s second, self-preserving, oddity is that unlike most genetic disorders it rarely manifests until well into ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

The Huntington disease mutation forms the core, but it is the fuzzy coat on the surface that is exposed to the brain cell environment. This fuzzy coat can then engage with cellular components and ...

What Is White Matter Disease? White matter disease is the wearing away of tissue in the largest and deepest part of your brain. The loss of white matter function has a number of causes ...

From breakthroughs at the lab bench, advancements in drug development, and both road bumps and triumphs in clinical trials, we have gained new insights into the workings of Huntington’s disease (HD), ...

SeedGn is a cutting-edge algorithm designed for generating complex patterns in biological data. It leverages advanced machine learning techniques to identify and analyze intricate relationships within ...

Since then, I think it's fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease—be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID in ...