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A Huntington’s researcher at the University of Toronto — Rachel Harding — will be the first biomedical scientist known to share documentation of her experiments in real-time. She is also inviting the public to scrutinize her work through her blog, another move that she hopes will accelerate research into Huntington’s disease. “This…

Researchers have for the first time visualized the structure of the protein α-synuclein in healthy living cells, allowing a better understanding of why the protein forms aggregates in Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. Despite α-synuclein being a known component of amyloid aggregates forming in the brains of HD, Parkinson’s and…

A review published in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep explores the links between sleep disturbance and neurodegeneration in diseases such as Huntington’s disease (HD). The authors state that sleep difficulties might not only be a symptom of the underlying neurodegeneration but also a contributing factor driving…

Using a fruit fly model of Huntington’s disease (HD), researchers found that curcumin – a substance in the spice turmeric– can reduce neuronal death and dysfunction and lead to better motor function in flies. The findings – in the report “Curcumin modulates cell death and is protective in…