It has been a full day and we are only half way through it. We started at the Turretfield Agricultural Research Station where we learned how sheep are bred with Huntington's disease so they can study the early stages of the disease in an attempt to understand it in humans. None of the sheep have begun to show signs, but they all "have it" and hopefully one day they will help us understand what happens in our own brain. Turns out that sheep brains are a lot like human ones. Who knew...
This was Joe our tour guide. You can see the amazing land that this facility was built on.
Maybe it was the Huntingtons, but if you look close...you can actually see the crazy in their eyes. Crazy, crazy eyes.
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