Huntington’s spreads like ‘fire in the brain.’ Scientists say they’ve found the spark

By Jon Hamilton on June 19, 2023 for NPR

Diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s are caused by toxic clumps of proteins that spread through the brain like a forest fire.

Now scientists say they’ve figured out how the fire starts in at least one of these diseases. They’ve also shown how it can be extinguished. Here…

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