Huntington’s Treatment Blog

St Andrews University (Fife) biologists claim to have moved a step closer to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, in developing a compound which has successfully prevented the disease killing brain cells. It also appears to improve memory and learning ability that is already damaged.
Working with American researchers they developed man-made compounds capable of blocking […]

New insights into how bacteria form fibers called curli offer intriguing clues to the formation of harmful protein tangles in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s, University of Michigan researchers report.
The research builds on a chance discovery that U-M microbiologist Matthew Chapman and co-workers made five years ago. In research initially aimed at understanding […]

Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) have identified a potential new drug target for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and possibly for other degenerative neurological disorders.
In an upcoming issue of the journal Science, the investigators describe finding, in cellular and animal models, that blocking the action of an enzyme called SIRT2 can […]