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Dr. Huda ZoghbiScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2011) - When Dr. John Fryer and Dr. Huda Zoghbi prescribed mild exercise for mice with a neurodegenerative disorder called spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1), they did not know what to expect.
Fryer, then a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Zoghbi who co-discovered the gene for the disorder, was disappointed when the exercise did not affect the mice's gait or walking ability. However, he and Zoghbi decided to put them back in their cages and see what would happen. What they found was the mice that exercised lived longer than those that had not. A report on their research appears online in the journal Science.
The result was important because spinocerebellar ataxia 1 is a devastating inherited disorder with no cure.

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