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 ...

If CRISPR stays active too long, it could cut unintended parts of the genome. To reduce this risk, the researchers designed a self-inactivating CRISPR system. This means that CRISPR edits the gene and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Huntingtin lowering has gained lots of attention in HD research, and for good reason. It was the first potential treatment designed to directly target the cause of HD – the huntingtin protein. But ...

The Huntington Study Group (HSG) is a clinical research network focused on accelerating treatments for Huntington’s disease (HD). This year, the annual conference is being held in Cincinnati, where ...

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.