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Welcome to HDBuzz

HDBuzz is now live! Your source for Huntington’s disease research news, in plain language, written by scientists, for the global HD community. Reliable, impartial and free to share, HDBuzz will bring you solid reasons to have hope, by explaining latest news from the worldwide effort to find effective treatments for HD.

Welcome to HDBuzz

It’s our great pleasure to announce the launch of HDBuzz, a new Internet platform for the latest news about Huntington’s disease research in plain language, written by scientists who work on HD. HDBuzz is dedicated to the people who need it most – those affected by HD and their family and friends.

Huntington’s disease research news

HDBuzz will give the global HD community free access to reliable, unbiased articles that reveal and explain the amazing, cutting-edge science that’s happening in labs and clinics around the world. You can expect a story or two a week, focused on particularly exciting developments in both clinical and basic research. Also look for in-depth coverage of HD scientific conferences and other events of interest to the community.

In plain language

HDBuzz will give you access to cutting-edge science, because we believe that all scientific progress can be explained in a way that allows non-scientists to understand it – in fact, we believe that no scientific work is complete until it’s been understood by the people it concerns.

HDBuzz is an experiment, and we need to know from you how we’re doing. If an article didn’t make sense, click the ‘Didn’t understand’ button and tell us how we can improve our content. If you like an article, click the ‘enjoyed’ button to let us know.

On the hdbuzz.net site, glossary pop-ups will explain any technical terms we have to use.

Written by scientists

HDBuzz writers and editors are qualified scientists and clinicians involved in the global effort to find treatments for HD. To remain independent, writers never report on their own research, and every writer completes a ‘conflicts of interest’ statement for each article.

You can find out about the HDBuzz team via the ‘About’ section.

For the global HD community

HDBuzz is the result of an exciting collaboration between many people all over the world, and we want our content to reach as far as possible. HD knows no cultural boundaries, and neither should access to information about HD.

HDBuzz is funded by a unique consortium of HD patient organizations. Our major supporters are the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Huntington’s Disease Association of England and Wales and the Huntington Society of Canada and we hope to welcome more global HD organizations to the consortium during 2011.

We aim to make all HDBuzz content available in as many languages as possible. We are launching in English and Spanish, and hope to add French, German and Dutch in the very near future.

Where to find us

You’ll be able to access all HDBuzz content via our web site, hdbuzz.net, and articles will also be syndicated to the HD community sites you already use – like hdsa.org, hda.org.uk and huntingtonsociety.ca where we hope they’ll provoke lively, informed debate.

HDBuzz has news feeds to the major social networking sites so you can follow HDBuzzFeed on Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz. You can also get updates by email.

And if you have a web page or blog, you can freely use HDBuzz content automatically via RSS or reproduce specific articles you like. See our sharing page, within the about section, for full details.

Hope through knowledge

It is a very exciting time for HD research – in the coming months and years, we expect real progress towards effective treatments for this disease we’re all united to fight.

We look forward to bringing that excitement to you, and giving you solid reasons to have real hope, through HDBuzz.

Latest Research Articles

Regulating repetition: Gaining control of CAG repeats could slow progression of Huntington’s disease

Published date: 30 November, 2023

“Somatic expansion” is a hot topic in Huntington’s disease research. Somatic expansion is a process in which CAG repeats lengthen in some cells during aging. It’s thought to control how early HD symptoms appear. A group of researchers from Toronto, Canada recently identified proteins that may play an important role in regulating this process. Understanding ... Read more

Getting to the Root of Huntington's Disease: A Plant-Based Approach

Published date: 15 October, 2023

Researchers studied a fragment of the Huntington’s disease (HD) protein in plants and found a new way to stop it from forming toxic clumps. A special plant protein that the team identified can prevent harmful buildup in plants as well as in some HD model systems, showing potential for this approach as a possible way ... Read more

Could halting CAG expansions be a new treatment for HD?

Published date: 5 October, 2023

A recent paper from a group at UMass Chan Medical School, spearheaded by Dr. Daniel O'Reilly and led by Dr. Anastasia Khvorova, used genetic strategies to lower a protein other than huntingtin. This time the researchers went after a gene called MSH3. This is a gene that’s been getting a lot of attention in Huntington’s ... Read more

Tipping the balance; new insights into HD genetic modifiers

Published date: 1 September, 2023

Genetic modifiers can influence when HD symptoms begin. Some of these genes encode for different types of molecular machines whose normal job is to repair our DNA when it is broken or damaged. A recently published study from scientists at Thomas Jefferson University uncovers details of how these molecular machines help repair damaged DNA structures ... Read more

Drug to treat movement symptoms of HD approved by FDA

Published date: 22 August, 2023

The vast majority of people with Huntington’s disease experience movement symptoms known as chorea. Valbenazine, also known as INGREZZA, has recently been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), allowing doctors in the USA to prescribe this medicine for Huntington’s disease (HD) chorea. In this article we go through the key points ... Read more

Youthful competitors: young brain cells oust the old

Published date: 8 August, 2023

When you lose something, an easy solution can be to just replace it. But what if the something you’ve lost are cells in the brain? Can they simply be replaced? Some researchers have been working toward this for Huntington’s disease (HD) by injecting new cells into the brains of animal models. A recent publication that ... Read more