Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Smartwatches that can collect physical and physiological data on users could be potentially interesting tools in biomedicine ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...

The European consortium for Solving the Unsolved Rare Diseases has demonstrated the significance of international ...

A new study of nerve cells affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that the disease-causing gene slowly expands over ...

Columbia researchers created an AI model that predicts gene activity in any human cell, advancing disease research and ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...