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Hats off to brain donors on Brain Donation Awareness Day
May 7, 2024
If you’re a frequent reader of HDBuzz, you may have noticed that our articles increasingly thank Huntington’s disease (HD) families for their generous and selfless…
A sprinkling of good news for the treatment of HD chorea
May 5, 2024
We wrote in August of 2023 about the US approval of a new drug to treat chorea, the movement symptoms of HD. That drug, valbenazine,…
A new era for HDBuzz
May 3, 2024
HDBuzz strives to be an honest and neutral source of information that Huntington’s disease (HD) families can turn to for trusted, unbiased reporting on research…
How many is too many? Exploring the toxic CAG threshold in the Huntington’s disease brain
April 22, 2024
Drug hunters have been particularly interested in the repeating C-A-G letters of genetic code that lead to Huntington’s disease (HD). The number of CAG repeats…
Cry your eyes out: detecting huntingtin in tears
April 11, 2024
A recently published collaboration between academic researchers and pharmaceutical companies was successful at detecting huntingtin in tears. The scientists were looking for a new, easy…