Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from Brain Research New Zealand and the Centre for Brain Research would like greater awareness of how the hereditary brain disease Huntington’s affects families. Malvindar Singh-Bains was presenting her research at the National Huntington’s...
How a hunch led to a new way to grow human brain cells in the lab to investigate an array of challenging disorders. When it comes to the brain disorders that occur with ageing – Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases – there is no cure. The illnesses are...
“Our animal models wander around in paddocks, eat grass, and are well cared for. In many ways, they’re just normal sheep,” says BRNZ Principal Investigator, Prof. Russell Snell. But those sheep are special, because they’re helping Russell and his colleagues at the...
This article was originally posted by HDYONZ [http://www.hdyo.co.nz/research-1/2016/8/21/deep-inside-the-huntingtons-brain] Movement issues are one of the most commonly known symptoms of Huntington’s disease. If a person is familiar with the condition, they will know...
This article was originally published by the Brain Health Research Centre [http://www.otago.ac.nz/bhrc/news/otago608623.html] Russell Snell is a pioneering geneticist. He was part of the team which first identified the gene for Huntington’s disease. That was more than...