A virus that delivers UniQure‘s gene therapy candidate AMT-130 has done a good job of getting the Huntington’s disease treatment into…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Although symptoms of Huntington’s disease don’t appear until later in life, new research suggests that the genetic flaw may alter…
Changes in brain volume are linked to both movement problems and cognitive decline in people with huntingtin mutations who have…
Caffeine boosts a neuroprotective protein in the brain that is lost in neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington’s disease, according to…
Mitochondrial abnormalities may not contribute to the degeneration of neurons in the striatum in patients with Huntington’s disease, according to…
Two large surveys that explore the views of adult and juvenile Huntington’s disease patients and their caregivers on symptoms and…
Researchers may finally have tracked down an explanation for expansions of three-letter DNA sequences that disrupt genes, and lead to Huntington’s disease and…
A study using a mouse model suggests that some symptoms of Huntington’s disease are caused by muscle abnormalities, and are…
A drug in clinical development by Takeda for schizophrenia, called TAK-063, was seen to reduce neuron death and improve symptoms…
By using computational modeling, researchers have demonstrated that at the early stages of mutant huntingtin (mHtt) aggregation, a molecular feedback…