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Discovery of enzyme could provide new route for treating Huntington’s disease – News-Medical.net
Scientists at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute have identified an enzyme that can play a central role in developing a new route of treatment for Huntington’s Disease.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 5 2020
Scientists at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute have identified an enzyme that can play a central role in developing a new route of treatment for Huntington’s Disease.
Huntington disease is a progressive and aggressively debilitating brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, psychological problems, and loss of cognition. It is caused by a mutation in the gene that encodes the protein huntingtin, causing it to build an abnormally long tail of the …
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