People with Huntington’s disease gradually lose neurons in their brains as defective protein molecules clump together inside those cells. Scientists in Japan now report that a simple sugar called trehalose can impede this protein aggregation in test-tube and animal experiments.
Trehalose joins a growing list of potential Huntington’s disease fighters (SN: 2/15/03, p.
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