Canadian Researchers unlock Huntington's Secrets

Researchers have unlocked the molecular secret that eliminates the symptoms of Huntington's disease in mice, a landmark discovery that is offering new hope for preventing the devastating effects of the disorder in humans.

A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia have discovered that by preventing the cutting, of a protein responsible for Huntington's in genetically altered mice, the symptoms of the disease do not develop and the animals exhibit normal brain function.