Today, Roche announced in a community letter difficult news for the Huntington’s disease (HD) community, discontinuing two separate clinical programmes after new data emerged from ongoing studies. The ...
No, not a puppy or a kitten or even a pet turtle, but a PET tracer to visualize huntingtin (HTT) protein in living subjects. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography, an imaging technique that can ...
On June 30th, Skyhawk Therapeutics shared a press release with new twelve-month data from the ongoing Phase 1/2 trial of ...
SKY-0515 is a daily oral drug designed to lower both huntingtin, the protein that drives HD, and PMS1, a DNA repair protein linked to somatic CAG repeat expansion. Researchers hope this dual-target ...
In plain language. Written by scientists. Catch up on all the latest Huntington's disease clinical trial news in this one stop shop article covering all of the recent developments in making medicines ...
In plain language. Written by scientists. ⏱️ 6 min read | New 12-month data from Skyhawk’s SKY-0515 is in and all four measures that make up the cUHDRS are at or above baseline, beating expected ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) involves the loss of cells in the striatum, an area of the brain that plays important roles in movement, cognition, and behaviour. For decades, researchers have been ...
A recent collaboration between researchers at the University of Leiden and the Huntington Expertise Center Topaz Overduin in the Netherlands has focused on an important yet often overlooked part of ...
In a recent study, scientists created a chemical that breaks down expanded huntingtin HTT clumps in HD cells and mouse models. This chemical finds HTT clumps and targets them to be broken down or ...
uniQure shared in a press release on June 17, 2026 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed the 3-year data from their Phase I/II study can serve as the basis for a Biologics License ...
In plain language. Written by scientists. ⏱️13 min read | Australia just made history by banning life insurers from using genetic testing against you. But for HD families in other countries, the laws ...