A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...
professor and department chair of biology, has now revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene.
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...
The field of Huntington’s disease research has been undergoing a radical reshaping of how the brain-ravaging disease — and what drives it — is understood. After decades focused on the notion ...
Huntington's disease, a fatal hereditary brain disorder, is linked to a genetic mutation that remains harmless for decades before expanding and producing toxic proteins that kill brain cells.
WASHINGTON — Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in ...