{"id":28829,"date":"2025-09-28T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/?p=28829"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:57:07","slug":"huntington-s-disease-treated-successfully-for-first-time-in-uk-gene-therapy-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/huntington-s-disease-treated-successfully-for-first-time-in-uk-gene-therapy-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington\u2019s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huntington\u2019s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/sep\/24\/huntingtons-disease-treated-successfully-for-first-time-in-gene-therapy-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breakthrough gene therapy trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The disease, caused by a single gene defect, steadily kills brain cells leading to dementia, paralysis and ultimately death. Those who have a parent with Huntington\u2019s have a 50% chance of developing the disease, which until now has been incurable.<\/p>\n<p>The gene therapy slowed the progress of the disease by 75% in patients after three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntington\u2019s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial. The disease, caused by a single gene defect, steadily kills brain cells leading to dementia, paralysis and ultimately death. Those who have a parent with Huntington\u2019s have a 50% chance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28832,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions\/28832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}