New hope in search for Huntington's cure - The Guardian 9th October 2007

Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a cure for Huntington's disease. Hope for a future treatment has been raised by the discovery of a chemical that slows damage to the brain caused by the genetic disease. The researchers do not yet know how the chemical works, because it was originally discovered during a trial and error trawl through tens of thousands of compounds, but they hope that by working out what it does it will open up a whole new avenue of potential treatments. So far the researchers have shown that the chemical improves symptoms in mice that have a form of the disease.

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