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

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been ...

Huntington's disease is a hereditary disorder caused by a genetic mutation in the HTT gene, leading to progressive brain cell ...

About 2,000 people in Australia are affected by Huntington's disease, a fatal and incurable condition that affects the ...

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

New genetic research shows why some people develop deadly Huntington's disease earlier than others. The findings could lead ...

New research shows that the mutation is harmless for decades, but it quietly grows into a larger mutation and eventually ...

Recent findings uncover how Huntington's disease develops over time, revealing the mutation's delayed effects on brain cells.