"I am absolutely thrilled and excited that we now have a potential treatment for this truly devastating disorder and what the data means is that for a person who has Huntington's disease, they will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MRI of a brain with Huntington's Disease. (Zephyr/Science Source) Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — For the first time, scientists have successfully treated someone suffering from Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic illness with no cure. The Mayo Clinic reports that the ...

UCL and uniQure report the first treatment to slow Huntington’s disease with gene therapy AMT-130. High-dose patients had 75% less progression over three years compared with standard care. uniQure ...

Gene therapy is becoming a powerful way to treat challenging diseases that don’t respond to traditional treatments, and researchers now report the first success in modifying genes to slow Huntington’s ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

This image shows three brain cells with the faulty protein that causes Huntington’s disease. The bright yellow cell in the middle has built up a clump of this protein inside it. The blue spots in the ...

ST. LOUIS — Scientists may have reached a breakthrough in the fight against Huntington’s disease, a rare and fatal inherited brain disorder with no cure. For the first time, a gene therapy has been ...

People affected by Huntington’s disease could at last benefit from the first treatment to slow the fatal neurodegenerative condition. Scientists from University College London (UCL) found patients ...