A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads ... of Biomedical Science and Genetics at Harvard Medical ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been known to be caused by mutations in the huntingtin gene, which leads to the ...

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 ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease ... of Biomedical Science and Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's ... Genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, the Ludwig Neurodegenerative ...

BOSTON — 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 ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease ... of Biomedical Science and Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and ...