The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know NYT - Top Stories By: Gina Kolata 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 TimesNancy Wexler a lifelong researcher of Huntington’s disease, who has the condition herself, in her Manhattan apartment.