Identifying Huntington’s disease progression can be a challenge in clinical trials. Now, an international team of researchers proposes in an…
Articles by Alice Melão
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded…
AC Immune has identified antibodies that target the alpha-synuclein and TDP-43 proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s. The discovery…
Aggregates of mutant huntingtin protein have been associated with cellular toxicity in Huntington’s disease. Now researchers have discovered that isolated…
A sluggish metabolism in the cells of the striatum, a brain region essential for motor function control, is associated with…
A mutated form of the huntingtin (mHTT) protein has been acknowledged as the cause of Huntington’s disease, but researchers have…
Researchers at the University of California and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the mechanisms that…
Abnormal proteins found in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s seem to rely on the same mechanism to…
Researchers at the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre in Brighton, England, have received a £3 million grant from Britain’s non-profit Wellcome Trust to…
Researchers have discovered why Huntington’s disease (HD) patients have defects in the blood-brain barrier that contribute to the symptoms of…