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The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know

11 June 2026 at 17:56
Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?

© Jackie Molloy for The New York Times

Nancy Wexler a lifelong researcher of Huntington’s disease, who has the condition herself, in her Manhattan apartment.
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