You can also read news, summaries, analyses, and commentaries on HD research on other web sites.

 

Genetic Testing Article - If you had a fifty-fifty chance of carrying a mutant gene that causes a fatal brain disease, would you want to know?

 

CHDI is a non-profit organization that is pursuing a biotech approach to rapidly discover and develop drugs that prevent or slow Huntington disease (HD).

 

The HD Drug Works provides news and information on treatments and clinical trials reviews research with immediate relevance to treatment.

 

European HD Network provides a platform for professionals and people affected by HD and their relatives to facilitate working together throughout Europe.

 

The Huntington Project brings together the entire clinical research community, including government and industry, to engage in the decision-making process required to develop treatments that make a difference for HD.

 

        In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary disease, once called Huntington's chorea.

 

The National website of the Huntington's Disease Society of America

HOPES – The Huntington’s Outreach Project for Education, at Stanford is a student-run project at Stanford University that summarize and synthesizes recent research on Huntington’s Disease for a non-technical audience.

Folding for the Cure! You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

Explore DNA.DNA discovery has allowed researchers to identify the genetic basis for many diseases. In doing so, the path has been paved for new treatments and enhanced knowledge for preventing disease.

      PBS Nova ScienceNow July 2005 Video on RNAi. A wayward petunia leads to the discovery of modest little molecules with enormous medical promise.


             The Center of Excellence HD Team at the UC Davis Medical Center.

The Hereditary Disease Foundation sponsors workshops, grants, fellowships, and targeted research contracts to solve the mysteries of genetic disease and develop new treatments and cures.

 

Pub Med is a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.  Type in “Huntington’s Disease” to find the abstracts of the latest scientific reports on HD.

There is hope on the horizon for people with Huntington's Disease. There are many Clinical Studies underway, and a number of potential therapies may move into Clinical Trial phases in the very near future.

The HD Lighthouse mission is to present and explain the latest research findings so that HD families can become proactive in their care, have hope for the future, and make good decisions in the present.

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