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It may seem a little odd, to be studying diseases of children, and say that you are treating diseases of aging. And really, it's not that odd. When you dig down into the mechanism, the biological mechanism, you see commonality between these diseases whether for syndromes of children or of old age. As a chemist, when I look at them, I see an underlying mechanism at the biochemical level of electron transport and redox balance and that follows through to the biology. So, it may seem odd at first but we really believe there are certain commonalities between these diseases, that by treating, say Friedreich's ataxia, which is essentially a syndrome of childhood, can give us great understanding into other diseases, whether it's Huntington's or classical diseases that everyone would recognize as diseases of old age.