Huntington's Disease: Gene Therapy Offers New Hope For Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Disorder
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 00:15
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have taken an important first step toward protecting against Huntington's disease using gene therapy. Huntington's Disease is an incurable neurological disorder characterized by uncontrolled movements, emotional instability and loss of intellectual faculties. It affects about 30,000 people in the United States, and children of parents with the disease have a 50 percent chance of inheriting it themselves.