Ana de Barros, PhD, managing science editor —

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Currents, a team of researchers from Cambridge in the United Kingdom developed a cheap motor task able to detect motor impairments in both premanifest and manifest Huntington’s disease (HD). According to the researchers the novel task might be a…

The New York Blood Center (NYBC) and the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation recently announced plans to expand their partnership and joint efforts to further stem cell line technology and application in regenerative medicine. This expansion will also welcome Drs. Peter…

Cloud-based drug design and development company, Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced it has signed with THERAMetrics holding AG to collaborate on breakthrough treatments for orphan central nervous system (CNS) diseases and other indications. This strategic collaboration has as its primary points of interest Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive supranuclear palsy…

A team of scientists at the University of Louisville are determined to find out if a promising treatment, VX15, an investigational monoclonal antibody, can delay the onset of or slow disease progression of Huntington’s Disease (HD). The study titled SIGNAL is a Phase II clinical trial that aims to determine the…

Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., a leader in therapeutic genome editing, recently announced it has agreed to amend its January 2012 collaboration and licensing agreement with Shire to accelerate the development of ZFP Therapeutics geared towards treated hemophilia A and B and Huntington’s disease. This agreement follows the companies’ mutual decision to refocus their research…

Evotec AG announced the CHDI Foundation, Inc. has agreed to extend and expand its partnership with the company until August 2018. The extension stipulates CHDI’s funding of 55 full-time scientists at Evotec in support of research efforts for Huntington’s Disease. The collaboration will utilize additional resources at Evotec’s facilities in Toulouse,…

The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the country, serving the more than 20 million people who live in the New York metropolitan area, recently announced it has partnered with the University of California Davis Health System to develop specialized lines of stem…

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers showed that a new test developed by a team of researchers at the UBC allows clinicians to quantity the effects of gene silencing therapy for patients with Huntington’s disease (HD) and will support the first…

A groundbreaking research initiative on cell reprogramming for drug development against Huntington’s disease recently received $1.19 million worth of funding for the next 3 years, thanks to the Health Research Council to University of Auckland. Lead investigator and neuroscientist, Associate Professor Bronwen Connor, will attempt to better understand the disease, particularly…

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a leading company in RNA-targeted drug discovery and development, recently announced they will initiate a new Phase I/IIa clinical trial of ISIS_HTTRx for the treatment of Huntington’s disease (HD). Roche will give Isis a milestone payment of $22 million for the initiation of the trial. The placebo-controlled,…