People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time. The cause is related to expansion of repeating DNA units, in which ...
Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...
on one strand of the DNA and cytosine-thymine-guanine, or CTG, on the complementary strand-begin to repeat over and over, expanding to as many as 40 to 120 copies. The extended copies create kinks ...
But other people find that being touched is too painful or uncomfortable. You might find other types of therapies more helpful, such as: visualisation meditation reiki Many palliative care wards and ...