According to a story from Yahoo News, Dr. Nancy Wexler spent around 20 years in Venezuela conducting pivotal research on a deadly rare genetic disorder: Huntington's disease. On Lake Maracaibo,…
Antonio Maltese is a young man living in Virginia. His family has also been devastated by the hereditary rare illness called Huntington's disease. In fact, he was diagnosed with the…
NPR News recently featured an article announcing that scientists at Portland’s Casey Eye Institute have attempted to use CRISPR to edit a gene with the DNA still in place.…
Patient confidentiality is often seen as an absolute in the medical world. Many people believe that it should never be broken. Cases do exist that challenge this thought however, where…
During the 1990s, researchers had a dream that by 2020, every individual would have access to their own genome. This would aid in their diagnosis and treatment as soon as…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biotechnology company Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals Inc., has announced recently that its experimental drug EHP-102 has earned Orphan Drug designation from the European Medicines…
According to a story from the University of Aberdeen, 57 year old Sandy Patience of Inverness, Scotland, is one of a total of 801 Huntington's disease patients from around the…
Sandy Patience is a 57-year-old man from Inverness, Scotland, and he has Huntington's disease. His mother and sister also have this disease, so he has seen others who are affected…
According to a story from EurekAlert! a recent study that was published in the Journal of Huntington's Disease has concluded that while this rare disease community is excited about what the latest…
According to a story from statnews.com, the family of 46 year old Tammy Stewart has been plagued by Huntington's disease, an ultimately fatal, progressive, degenerative disease that causes decades of…
For a long time, Huntington's Disease has been monitored and studied through the examination of subjective measures, such as Unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS), and survey-based questions. MC10 is…
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Stéphanie Tomé is an investigator at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. A recent article in PacBio describes Tomé’s research into a disease that becomes progressively worse with each generation.…
According to a story from ncbiotech.org, a new partnership between Vertex Pharmaceuticals and RNA-based therapeutics company Ribometrix aims to develop potential treatments for serious diseases, including Huntington's disease, which is…
According to a story from Medical Xpress, a recent study has determined that the onset of Huntington's disease symptoms is triggered by genetic instability in a specific sequence of DNA…
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It's common knowledge among researchers who study diseases called toxic proteinopathies that this group of disorders are the result of misfolded proteins that reside in cells. Certain proteins fail to…
It's common knowledge among researchers who study diseases called toxic proteinopathies, that this grou of disorders are the result of misfolded proteins that reside in cells. Certain proteins fail to…
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered that one segment of DNA is responsible for four rare diseases. As reported in Science Daily, the university team also believes that…
According to a story from Huntington's Disease News, Egypt is able to claim the dubious honor of being the Huntington's disease capital of the world when it comes to its…
HDSA 34 Boston: The 34th Annual HDSA Convention The 34th annual convention is tailored for Huntington's disease patients and their families. Join the HDSA for three days of educational sessions,…
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The blood-brain barrier is a “gatekeeper” that prevents toxins and foreign matter in the bloodstream from traveling to the brain. Check Orphan recently carried an article that had been…
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The Hermstads of Spencer, Iowa lost Jaci’s twin to ALS and now they must watch Jaci, rapidly descend into the depths of the same disease. Jaci has a rare…
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Calls to Ban CRISPR A scientist named He Jiankui recently shocked the scientific world with his announcement that he had created twin “CRISPR babies”. The babies, a result of…
According to a publication from Laboratory Equipment, a new animal study of mice with simulated Huntington's disease suggests that a protein associated with the symptoms of Huntington's can form small,…
Huntington's Disease Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease. It progressively affects the patient's mobility and cognitive function. Unfortunately, a cure has yet to be discovered and the condition…
My name is Antonio Maltese and I am a 22 year old senior Political Science major concentrating in International Relations and minoring in German at Virginia Commonwealth University. Back in…
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