Nanotubes enable travel of Huntington’s protein
IMAGE: Scripps Research neuroscientists Srinivasa Subramaniam, PhD, and Manish Sharma, PhD, review confocal microscope images of the Huntington’s protein moving between neurons via nanotube. view more Credit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla.–May 10, 2019–A toxic protein linked to Huntington’s disease can move from neuron to neuron through a nanotube tunnel whose construction is initiated by a…