A new article summarizes what the Huntington's disease field has found about a type of brain cell called an astrocyte. These star-shaped cells help keep brain cells healthy and could be leveraged for developing new HD therapeutics.
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Brain cells called astrocytes might play a bigger role than previously thought in Huntington's disease