The Huntington disease Digital Motor Score, derived from smartphone sensor-based motor tests, can improve detection of disease progression.

Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic disorder affecting movement, memory, and mood. Here’s what we know—and what’s ahead.

A new study reveals that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into adult mice with Huntington’s disease can delay motor and cognitive decline and extend lifespan.

A schematic diagram of the development of next-generation RNA gene editing technology using induction evolution The Catholic ...

Five simple smartphone-measured tests of movement control can provide quick and regular insight into the motor function of ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a protein that appears to act as a master control switch for ...

The first blood test that can predict the onset and progression of Huntington’s disease has been identified by a UCL-led study. The researchers say their findings, published in Lancet Neurology, ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. Aging induces pathological ...

Scientists are working to understand some of the earliest changes to DNA repair caused by Huntington’s disease (HD) – insights that could help uncover new therapeutics and new ways to target somatic ...

HD is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by a mutation in the gene encoding HTT resulting in expansion of the polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch on its amino-terminus (Bates et al., 2015; Franklin et al ...