Announcing the 2025 HDBuzz Prize for Young Science Writers – sponsored by the Hereditary Disease Foundation!

From vision changes to genetic traffic jams and a clinical trial update, May was full of HD science excitement! Dive into our latest roundup to see how researchers are advancing Huntington’s ...

A recently published review discusses the challenges of dental care for people with HD, and the ways that informed dentists and medical teams can help to manage oral healthcare throughout the HD ...

In cells without the HD gene, HTT stimulates PARylation and promotes efficient DNA repair. However, in HD, the mutant HTT protein fails to stimulate PARP, leading to fewer PAR chains, impaired DNA ...

Dr. Sarah Hernandez is the Director of Research Programs at the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF). She carried out her postdoctoral work with Dr. Leslie Thompson at the University of California, ...

For many with Huntington’s disease, recognising faces, navigating familiar places, or reading can be difficult. Scientists studied how and when HD affects how the brain processes what we ...

Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community. This is a fallback page – if you see it something has gone wrong – email [email protected] with ...

Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. For the global HD community. This is a fallback page – if you see it something has gone wrong – email [email protected] with ...

For Huntington’s disease (HD), a lot of attention goes to the genetic change that causes HD, but new research is shining a light on something else – our epigenome. The word literally means, “above” ...