HDBuzz Interview: Gwen Owens & her out-of-this-world plans to study the Huntington's disease protein
Channel: HD Buzz
Date: 25/09/2013

HDBuzz's Dr Ed Wild interviews Gwen Owens, PhD candidate in the laboratory of Dr Pamela Bjorkman, at Caltech, USA. Gwen studies huntingtin, the protein that causes Huntington's disease. To find out its structure, Gwen needs to form pure crystals of huntingtin, but these are impossible to make on earth. So, Gwen has teamed up with NASA to set up some amazing crystal-forming experiments in the micro-gravity environment of the International Space Station. This interview was screened at the World Congress on Huntington's Disease, Rio de Janeiro, 16th September 2013.