Alpha-synuclein, the protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease, may play a role in Huntington’s disease after researchers found elevated levels…
Articles by Margarida Azevedo, MSc
Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing number of clinical trials focused on the search of new…
Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital have revealed the cellular and biological mechanisms involved in synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease. By blocking…
University of California at Davis researchers have, for the first time, successfully tested human stem cells (MSCs) as a delivery…
Researchers at Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University investigated the physiological and pathological role of MICU1 (Mitochondrial Calcium Uptake 1), a protein…
New Huntington’s research sheds light on the link between the effects of the disease’s underlying mutation on brain structure and function, and…
Emory University researchers deleted the Huntington’s disease-causing protein, huntingtin, in the brains of adult mice, and observed that such deletion…
Researchers have developed a computational cognitive classification method that allows the differentiation of pre-symptomatic Huntington’s disease patients from early onset…
Researchers found that the mutant huntingtin protein aggregates characteristic of Huntington’s disease have distinctive structural features, a discovery that might help to…
A research team successfully developed a virus variant that is more efficient than the current standard at crossing the blood-brain…