A new, one-time treatment could be the answer to cure Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease long-considered ...

The successful gene therapy is AMT-130, developed by a company called UniQure. In a three-year trial of 29 participants with ...

Peake relates the story of folk music legend Woody Guthrie, "our greatest advocate," if only by accident. The ...

Huntington's Disease is a fatal genetic disease that breaks down the mind and body, and there is no cure. About 41,000 people live with this debilitating disease. Next Saturday you can join families ...

What is the origin of National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness month and what can I do to promote it? In 1983, President Ronald Reagan first designated November as National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — ...

Revir Therapeutics Inc. has announced progress in its HTT-PMS1 genetic medicine program for Huntington’s disease with the ...

On a Thursday morning last month, Boniaba Community Health Center in Mali was running a TB screening. There was no doctor in sight. Yet, a mother plagued by coughing got an answer in a matter of ...

"The CIRM grant will enable ReviR Therapeutics to further develop their preclinical candidate through rigorous preclinical studies and into clinical trials, with an initial goal to ensure that the ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic condition caused by an inherited defect in a single gene. Currently there are about 30 ...