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Protecting the brain from a deadly genetic disease

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Huntington's disease (HD) is a cruel, hereditary condition that leads to physical and mental deterioration and eventually, death. HD sufferers are born with the disease although they don't show symptoms until late in life. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Stephen Ferguson and Fabiola Ribeiro of Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario identified a protective pathway in the brain that may explain why symptoms take so long to appear.

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