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In this project, we are studying cells affected by a neurological disorder – Huntington’s Disease.

To understand how this disease affects the cells, we study their shape and structure by taking images of them in 3D. This project will help us to understand what is different between cells with versus those without disease.

You can help us study the structure of these cells in this project. We’re asking volunteers to look at images and to localise the center of organelles. Organelles are structures found inside cells. They serve many important biological functions and can vary a lot in size and appearance (don’t worry, you will see the examples in the project tutorial!).

This project builds on the previous Science Scribbler projects. Your efforts here will help improve both our understanding of Huntington’s Disease, and will help us improve ways of analysing our data faster.