Good News re ACR16 [Huntexil] European Study 2-3-2010

Onderwerp: Good News re ACR16 [Huntexil] European Study 2-3-2010 HDSA’s website has the below important research update. This personal message from Louise Vetter is critical to US efforts and it’s important it be shared with HD families:

Discovery of new mechanism of brain cell injury in Huntington’s disease offers new approaches to treatment

Scientists at the Brain Research Centre and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics have uncovered a key cellular mechanism that alters brain cell function in Huntington’s disease, and identified a possible treatment for the disease. The results of the study

Harvard Brain Bank Video

From National Geographic

2010/02/08-11 5th Annual HD Therapeutics Conference

CHDI is delighted to announce that our 5th Annual Conference on HD Therapeutics will be held February 8-11, 2010, in Palm Springs, California. The conference program is currently being planned and will cover all aspects of drug discovery related to Huntington’s disease. Sessions will include:

Research Offers a Clue to Huntington’s

an article by Carl Sherman August 03, 2009 Researchers at Johns Hopkins University may have found the answer to one riddle within that mystery: the distribution of a small protein, Rhes, closely matches the disease’s swath of destruction. http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=22860

We Found the Gene! Huntington’s Disease After the Cheering

An article by Richard Robinson  January 01, 2003 An interesting article written ten years after the discovery of the gene.  It provides a history of the research to that point and the most promising research that existed at that time. http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2912