Healthy tissue grafted to brains of Huntington's patients also develops the disease
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 02:32
in Health & Medicine
Healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft, a study shows. This discovery will have profound implications on our understanding of the disease and how to treat it, and may also lead to the development of new therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.