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How Huntington’s disease affects different neurons

January 20, 2023
… How Huntington’s disease affects different neurons January 20, 2023 Research … within a brain structure involved in mood and movement Huntington's Disease Single Cell Transcriptomics and …

Huntington's Model Fruit Flies

… Huntington's Model Fruit Flies Innovations & Inventions Huntington’s disease is an inherited fatal neurodegenerative disease that …

Genes & Disease

December 14, 2020
… Genes & Disease December 14, 2020 Research Feature Picower scientists … neuromodulation Rett syndrome Fragile X Syndrome Huntington's Disease candidate plasticity genes Bipolar Disorder IGF1 …

Cell-type specific vulnerabilities in disease

… Cell-type specific vulnerabilities in disease Discoveries The brain contains multitudes. Just the … expression of the genes in mice. In 2020 Heiman’s lab performed the first study to comprehensively track how … of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease (HD).  Using two different screening …

Fruit fly models of human disease

… Fruit fly models of human disease Discoveries The Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly is … human diseases by studying the fruit fly nervous system. Huntington’s disease is a terminal neurodegenerative condition resulting …
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