{"id":205430,"date":"2025-10-11T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:39:11","slug":"can-huntingtons-disease-be-cured-a-new-breakthrough-gene-therapy-offers-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205430\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Huntington&#8217;s Disease Be Cured? A New Breakthrough Gene Therapy Offers Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Hi, this is Naomi in Berlin. Today I\u2019m looking west to Scotland, where the possibility of a treatment is inspiring some people to test for a devastating genetic disease. More on that in a moment, but first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When Dutch-American biotech UniQure announced the first <a href=\"https:\/\/uniqure.gcs-web.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/uniqure-announces-positive-topline-results-pivotal-phase-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">successful <\/a>drug trial in the deadly neurodegenerative disorder Huntington\u2019s disease last month, the news spread quickly through a cluster of potential patients in northern Scotland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, this is Naomi in Berlin. Today I\u2019m looking west to Scotland, where the possibility of a treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,79354,99,485,5175,2057,137,500,18461,6626,127494,22606,37704,5994,3586,127493],"class_list":["post-205430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berlin","tag-business","tag-california","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-europe","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-industries","tag-logistics","tag-matt-kapusta","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-prognosis","tag-scotland","tag-united-kingdom","tag-university-of-aberdeen-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}