Huntington’s disease symptoms are linked to expanding DNA repeats (CAG) that become toxic in brain cells over time The "ticking DNA clock" accelerates after 80 repeats, killing neurons within ...

Beta blockers were associated with later appearance of motor symptoms and slower symptom worsening, but an outside expert questioned their appropriateness for Huntington’s disease.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to ...

The field of Huntington’s disease research has been undergoing a radical reshaping of how the brain-ravaging disease — and what drives it — is understood. After decades focused on the notion ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

Huntington’s disease is horrible. It is also odd. Illnesses caused by inherited aberrant genes are mostly what geneticists call “recessive”, meaning someone must receive defective versions ...

Surprise Finding Sheds Light on What Causes Huntington's Disease, a Devastating Fatal Brain Disorder Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating ...