In 2006, some of Carroll’s lab mates made a breakthrough in their work with a strain of mice engineered to carry the human gene for Huntington’s.

It was considered really important because it showed how the levels of toxic proteins that are in the brain can be lowered, and obviously this is considered a very big step in the possibility to stop a deadly disease as Huntington’s is.  

Huntington’s disease is a disease that is simply devastating, not only to the person that suffers it, but also to the family. Technically it is a brain disease, but the way patients generally describe it is as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease combined.

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