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Your Arab aren't you? Have you ever dated a terrorist

nah I’m not into white guys sry

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Smile, you are Palestinian. 🇵🇸

you'll never crush our spirit, you'll never defeat our hope

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Day 3/15

On a bad weather night does making a pizza count as being productive?

Well, atleast my mum was proud....

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3/15 days of Productivity

Excuse my messy work. I need sleep.😑

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Pathology Rethink

Huntington’s disease is a rare and incurable, neurodegenerative disorder characterised by uncontrolled movements, changes in mood, and declines in reasoning and memory. The causative mutation – which creates an abnormally extended version of the huntingtin protein – was discovered decades ago, yet the protein’s normal function and how its mutation leads to pathology remain unclear. Because huntingtin interacts with many cellular proteins, its abnormal extension was widely considered to be a gain-of-function mutation – one that causes excessive recruitment of interacting proteins resulting in toxicity. But recent work reveals that loss of huntingtin function in mouse brain striatal neurons (red) can cause Huntington’s-like pathology and symptoms too, including impaired neuronal survival, infiltration of other brain cells called glial astrocytes (cyan), and movement and coordination deficits. This new view of Huntington’s pathology suggests that current therapies aimed at suppressing the mutant protein may in fact be counterproductive and that a new drug design perspective might be required.

Today is Rare Disease Day

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Caley J. Burrus and colleagues

Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Cell Reports, January 2020

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2/15 days of Productivity

Studying for the Dental histology viva.

A minion torch pen just makes things better. If only it could help me in making sense out of the pink purple dots.....

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1/25 Days of Productivity -

Cardiac physiology is my favourite ♥️

P.S. : Yes, I keep a screw driver in a my pen stand.