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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tD33NAt" data-source="post: 2694747" data-attributes="member: 124445">Johns Hopkins researchers, working with an international consortium, say they have generated stem cells from skin cells from a person with a severe, early-onset form of Huntington's disease (HD), and turned them into neurons that degenerate just like those affected by the fatal inherited disorder. By creating "HD in a dish," the researchers say they have taken a major step forward in efforts to better understand what disables and kills the cells in people with HD, and to test the effects of potential drug therapies on cells that are otherwise locked deep in the brain...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/emK17OO2-pE" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/emK17OO2-pE/247236.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>