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 ...

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 ...

A decade ago, UB researchers shed some light on an enduring neuroscience mystery: How exactly does a mutated huntingtin protein (HTT) cause Huntington’s disease? They found that HTT is something like ...

Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully treated someone suffering from Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic illness ...