Genetics

Genes offer new clues to stopping Huntington’s disease in its tracks

Researchers and drugmakers are shifting focus to a new generation of therapies aimed at a process called somatic expansion

an illustration of someone canoeing towards a waterfall of molecules

Illustration by Stefania Infante

By Elie Dolgin

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Jeff Carroll was in his mid-twenties, fresh out of the U.S.