We are back for Day 2 of the 2026 Milton Wexler Biennial Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts, with the Huntington’s Disease Foundation. Today’s scientific talks covered a range of topics, from somatic ...

As with other shared clinical datasets, participant identities remain protected through secure coding and anonymisation.

Roche’s news also reminds us of a broader challenge. Many of today’s genetic therapies are scientifically remarkable, but ...

HDBuzz: 2024 was a big year for HD research, particularly in the clinical space. Which breakthroughs or advances in HD research from the past year are you particularly excited about? HDBuzz Editors-in ...

On 25th June 2024, Wave Life Sciences shared the results of their SELECT-HD clinical trialclinical trial Very carefully planned experiments designed to answer specific questions about how a drug ...

Roche’s announcement that they were ending two of their HD programs was genuinely disappointing, and it leaves behind some unanswered questions. Was huntingtin lowered enough in the brain regions that ...

In plain language. Written by scientists. We're proud to announce Jenny Lange as a 2024 HDBuzz Prize winner! Our brains are made up of many types of cells that play different roles in the changes ...

In plain language. Written by scientists. Huntington’s disease disrupts genetic "traffic lights," keeping genes green when they should be red. These genetic traffic jams may act to speed brain cell ...

⏱️7 min read | A recent study in pigs suggests the HD brain could be under attack from the body’s own immune system. The results reveal that invading cytotoxic T cells might contribute to ...

HSG leadership is kicking things off with a series of intros and brief updates about the meeting agenda and the future of the organization. Stay tuned today as well as Friday and Saturday as we share ...

A new study led by researchers from University College London has helped uncover some of the earliest changes that happen in people with the gene for Huntington’s disease (HD), long before obvious ...