Jeff Carroll: searching for the toxic species in Huntington's disease

Dr. Jeffrey B. Carroll (Allen Institute Brain Health Accelerator) visited our lab today to give a guest lecture: “Searching for the toxic species in Huntington’s disease.” “Ground zero” for everyone working on HD was the discovery of the CAG repeat expansion in a gene then dubbed “IT15”, for interesting transcript 15, now known as huntingtin ( HTT ) [ Huntington’s Disease Collaborative Research…