A BBC story and video from Aug 2010. Venezuelan village key in search for Huntington’s cure. The village of Barranquitas in Venezuela has the highest concentration of Huntington’s disease, a devastating brain condition, in the world. The BBC’s Will Grant accompanies a US scientist there as she continues her life’s work to find a cure. [...]
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