New clue emerges for cellular damage in Huntington's disease
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 05:21
in Health & Medicine
"Huntington's disease presents an ideal vantage point to study neurodegenerative disease, because we know the misfolded protein that's responsible," says Martin Duennwald, formerly a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist. "But we don't understand how this protein causes cellular damage and death for the neurons that are affected."
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