In The Best American Science Writing 2008, there is a rather moving New York Times article by Amy Harmon, "Facing Life With a Lethal Gene."

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Recent animal studies have shown that clioquinol – an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders – can reverse the progression of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.

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Lynch is a neuroscientist at UC Irvine, where he has spent 37 years trying to uncover the biochemical mechanisms of memory.

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Iron is vital to human life; for example, it is a component of hemoglobin, the substance that makes our blood red and supplies our cells with oxygen.

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New insights into how bacteria form fibers called curli offer intriguing clues to the formation of harmful protein tangles in diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's, University of Michigan researchers report.

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a story on family's genetic disease

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Another breakthrough in protein structure elucidation. Hopefully, determining the structure of key proteins can help our understanding of how they work and give us insight on how to manipulate its processes.

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Canadian researchers have unlocked the molecular secret that eliminates the symptoms of Huntington's disease in mice, a landmark discovery that is offering new hope for preventing the devastating effects of the disorder in humans.

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