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Michael Weilert on May 5, 2017 in
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Huntington’s disease a relatively rare, yet nonetheless devastating, hereditary condition whose effects have been described as a combination of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS. Because of its particularly devastating symptoms, it’s the subject of plenty of scientific investigation. I recently read about one study at Johns Hopkins where researchers found evidence that disruptions in the flow of cellular materials in and out of a cell’s nucleus could be the direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington’s disease. The researchers, working with mouse, fly and human cells...