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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Cells

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Cells with Huntington's disease lack the enzyme that creates cysteine and die in environments without it (Left). Cells treated with monensin have cysteine stores and are better prepared to survive in environments with little cysteine (Right).

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Juan Sbodio

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