Over this past holiday, my wonderful parents got me the Nintendo Switch and the new Pokemon…
Alexus Jones
Alexus is a columnist at BioNews — the publisher of this site — where she writes about her. experience with Huntington’s disease. Alexus is all too familiar with the disease: her grandfather and mother have it, and she recently learned she does, too. Alexus graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and minors in health policy and management. Currently, she’s working in life science consulting in the Boston area.
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Articles by Alexus Jones
At around 1 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2019, my aunt was pronounced dead. She had been waiting with…
While traveling to a recent event on the T, greater Boston’s public transport system, I…
Some moments are so perfect that you wish time would stop so that some part of you could…
I was recently invited to talk about my column on Help 4 HD Live!, a weekly…
In a previous column, I wrote about how I believe it is likely for a medical breakthrough…
As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, my mother received her Huntington’s diagnosis almost a year ago. My parents…
I’m a logical person. I tend to look at the numbers and make a rational assessment of a…
I am amazed at the differences in the ways our brains work and the variations that exist in…
In my previous column, I talked about the day I received my diagnosis. I got through the…