Mutated Protein in Huntington’s Patients Can Be Transplanted, Grown in Healthy Animal Cells

Korean researchers have demonstrated for the first time that transplanting cells from a patient with Huntington’s disease (HD) into mice leads to the development of the pathology in the animal through the propagation of mutated huntingtin (HTT). The study “Human-to-mouse prion-like propagation of mutant huntingtin protein,” was published in…