For Jill, the issue isn’t whether life has value. It is what kind of life is being preserved. If she can no longer eat without choking, recognize loved ones, or share what she wants, would inserting a ...

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Columnist Tanita Allen's mindfulness and meditation practice has taught her that she doesn't need to fight herself every ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google My wife, Jill, who is gene-positive with Huntington’s disease (HD ...

Differences in brain connections for people who carry a mutation known to cause Huntington’s disease are detectable decades before the onset of motor symptoms, a study showed. The findings suggested ...

Research is currently ongoing to find a cure for Huntington’s disease and to develop new therapies that might be able to prevent or delay disease progression and better manage the symptoms of the ...

A novel gene-editing approach that’s designed to alter the huntingtin protein so it’s less prone to forming the toxic clumps that drive Huntington’s disease led to better motor function and less brain ...

A global clinical trial testing SKY-0515, Skyhawk Therapeutics’ daily oral therapy for Huntington’s disease, will soon start recruiting adults with the genetic condition in the U.S., Canada, and the U ...

Atalanta Therapeutics has raised $97 million to support planned Phase 1 clinical trials of its experimental RNA interference (RNAi)-based therapies for Huntington’s disease and a genetic form of ...

Several late-stage clinical trials are now recruiting participants to test whether three experimental oral therapies can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, with active or planned sites in ...

uniQure has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking accelerated approval of AMT-130, the Netherlands-based company’s gene therapy candidate for Huntington’s ...

On a recent evening, my wife, Jill, who is gene-positive with Huntington’s disease, sat me down and said, “I need you to understand what happens in my head when I keep asking the same question.” When ...