On a video call in early September, Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data that she and other researchers studying Huntington’s ...

UCL and uniQure report the first treatment to slow Huntington’s disease with gene therapy AMT-130. High-dose patients had 75% less progression over three years compared with standard care. uniQure ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — For the first time, scientists have successfully treated someone suffering from Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic illness with no cure. The Mayo Clinic reports that the ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

People affected by Huntington’s disease could at last benefit from the first treatment to slow the fatal neurodegenerative condition. Scientists from University College London (UCL) found patients ...

In a small trial, a gene therapy injected into the brain slowed the disease by 75 percent over three years. Huntington’s disease is extremely cruel. Symptoms start with random, uncontrollable twitches ...

This image shows three brain cells with the faulty protein that causes Huntington’s disease. The bright yellow cell in the middle has built up a clump of this protein inside it. The blue spots in the ...

A novel gene therapy has been found to significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, offering new hope to sufferers of the incurable disorder that destroys brain cells over time.

Huntington’s disease is a neurological (brain) condition that causes involuntary movement, changes to emotions, behavior, and thinking. Huntington’s is a genetic disease that worsens over time.