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Precision Pruning with PROTACs: Selective Targeting of Toxic Huntingtin
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Your DNA Shouldn’t Cost You Your Insurance: What HD Families Need to Know
⏱️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 meant to protect haven’t kept pace with the science. Let’s break down what you need to know.
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The Other Shoe Drops: uniQure Shares Plans To Submit Licensing Application With The FDA for AMT-130
⏱️ 9 min read | After a turbulent past year, uniQure have shared encouraging news that the FDA has agreed their Phase I/II study data can serve as the basis for an application that could lead to the approval of AMT-130 in the US.
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First participant dosed in pioneering neural stem cell trial for Huntington’s disease
A new clinical trial for HD is underway. The first participant has been dosed in REGEN4HD, a study testing whether transplanting neural stem cells is safe as a potential treatment for HD.
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Evolving Needs, Evolving Care: Adapting Psychological Support Across Different Stages of Huntington’s Disease
⏱️ 9 min read | Huntington’s disease affects more than movement: it also has a major impact on mental health. Researchers explore why psychological care matters and how it needs to be adapted across each stage of HD.
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Sealing the gap: a case for slower, smarter DNA repair
⏱️ 7 min read | Your body assembles DNA like a team of workers who set and bond a pattern of tiles. A recent study shows that one special assistant might slow somatic CAG expansion and delaying HD onset.
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HDBuzz 2025 Annual Report: Here’s what you made possible
⏱️7 min read | In 2025, you helped us reach 329,000 people with independent, unbiased HD research news. Our 2025 Annual Report is here. Take a look at what we built together, and consider helping us keep going.
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Skyhawk reports encouraging 12-month results for oral Huntington’s disease drug SKY-0515
One year into treatment, SKY-0515 continues to lower huntingtin and shows encouraging trends with signs and symptoms of HD. A larger trial is enrolling to determine whether the drug truly slows HD progression
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May 2026: This Month in Huntington’s Disease Research
⏱️8 min read | May 2026: 2 year data from the votoplam trial suggests disease progression may slow; AMT-130 heads to the UK for regulatory review; pigs reveal immune cells invading the HD brain; and new science zooms in on toxic huntingtin fragments.
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Fixing the Recipe: Lowering a Slice of Huntingtin
⏱️7 min read | In a recent paper, scientists targeted a small, harmful piece of the huntingtin message (HTT1a) in HD mice. This reduced toxic protein clumps and delayed genetic changes, more than targeting full length HTT.
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Tagging the Trash: Turnover of Toxic Huntingtin
⏱️ 5 min read | A recent study suggests that strengthening the brain’s own clean-up system could slow Huntington’s disease.
HDBuzz Trial Tracker
Sites for Phase 3 trial for votoplam, INVEST-HD, now open. Updates on recruitment and first dosing imminent.
REGEN4HD, Phase 1 stem cell implantation study commences
Progress update for NCT06585449 – A Study to Evaluate ALN-HTT02
