Restricting food intake to a specific time period each day could benefit people living with Huntington’s disease, a new study indicates. Restricting food intake to the same 6-hour period was found to benefit mouse models of Huntington’s disease. Having studied mouse models of the disease, researchers found that a strict eating schedule — which involved […]
Scientists probing the reason why cancer is far less common in individuals with Huntington’s disease have revealed that the gene responsible for the fatal brain condition produces a molecule that is deadly to cancer cells. Why are people with Huntington’s disease less likely to be diagnosed with cancer? In a recent paper published in the […]
Eating meals at the same time each day may be an effective way to improve quality of life for individuals with neurodegenerative disorders, a new study suggests. Researchers suggest that restricting eating times may benefit people with Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. In a study conducted on mice with Huntington’s disease, researchers discovered that […]
Medication used to treat cancer could potentially be an effective therapy for Huntington’s disease, according to new research led by Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. The drug may also offer a pathway to treat other neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers found that a drug used in the treatment of cancer could also help in […]
Protein aggregates are the hallmark of a number of neurodegenerative diseases. New research, published in the journal PLOS Biology, examines a human enzyme that unravels these disruptive plaques. Abnormal protein buildups (shown here) are involved in a number of neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease. Neurodegenerative diseases already affect millions of people in the United States. […]
Research, published this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, offers hope for people with Huntington’s disease. Gene editing could be the key to an eventual cure. Gene editing advancements could produce a future cure for Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease, an inherited condition, causes the progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. It affects […]
For many years, research on neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord and brain injury has focused on damage to nerve cells, or neurons. Now, a new study of astrocytes – a type of cell that surrounds and supports neurons – finds that there is a subtype that can turn rogue and kill neurons, instead of helping […]
New research on mice finds Huntington’s disease – a hereditary, progressive disorder involving death of nerve cells in the brain – may also concern defects in skeletal muscle tissue. The finding could lead to better treatments for improving motor function, and it may also offer biomarkers for monitoring the disease without having to examine the […]
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have identified several new biological markers to measure the progression of the inherited neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD). Their findings, which will be published online in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could benefit clinical trials that test new treatments for the disease. In HD, an expansion of a […]