Clearance given to clinical trial with potential to change course of brain disease
A trial to look at gene therapy, BV-01, for Huntington’s Disease has been given the…
August 24, 2022 - 3 minutes
Huntington’s disease
Israeli-Dutch Biotech Raises €55M to Fight Huntington’s Disease and ALS
Prilenia Therapeutics has raised €55M in Series A funding to launch late-stage clinical trials of…
June 5, 2020 - 3 minutes
This Biotech Repurposes Drugs to Fight Huntington’s Disease
Barcelona-based SOM Biotech is developing treatments for incurable diseases such as Huntington’s disease with drugs…
March 29, 2019 - 4 minutes
Update: The FDA Green-lights Clinical Trials for Huntington’s Disease Gene Therapy
Update (23/01/2019): The FDA has given uniQure regulatory clearance to begin a phase I/II trial…
January 23, 2019 - 3 minutes
Huntington’s Could Be Diagnosed in Five Minutes With This Lab-on-a-Chip
Using a lab-on-a-chip device, Swiss scientists have found a way to diagnose the neurodegenerative condition…
January 15, 2019 - 2 minutes
Epigenetics Test Can Distinguish Between Huntington’s Disease Stages
A study run by Oxford BioDynamics suggests that we could predict Huntington's more easily by…
November 8, 2018 - 2 minutes
World’s First Gene Therapy Developer Raises $128M for Hemophilia and Huntington’s
uniQure has raised a substantial public offering on the NASDAQ. The funding could help the Dutch…
May 3, 2018 - 2 minutes
This Israeli Biotech Targets Protein Translation to Fight Disease
Today, we're taking a look at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that is developing a…
April 13, 2018 - 2 minutes
Could A More Precise CRISPR/Cas9 System Treat Huntington’s Disease?
Polish researchers tested a new variant of CRISPR/Cas9 that increases the gene-editing system's precision in…
February 28, 2018 - 3 minutes
Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How Are Biotechs Fighting Rare Diseases?
Rare diseases affect fewer than 1 in 2,000 people in Europe and less than 200,000…
February 28, 2018 - 8 minutes
British and German Scientists Chuck Proteins in the Trash to Uncover their Function
Trim-Away removes a protein to uncover its true function, which will support disease research and potentially…
November 20, 2017 - 3 minutes
It’s Global Rare Disease Day! What Cures is Biotech Cooking Up?
We've compiled a list of some of the latest advances of biotech in the field…
February 28, 2017 - 5 minutes
