Resveratrol rescues SIRT1-dependent adult stem cell decline and alleviates progeroid features in laminopathy-based
progeria. Cell Metab.
Hayley was known as the "104-year-old teenager" and inspired millions as she raised awareness of
progeria and starred in a series of TV documentaries.
In 1886, Jonathan Hutchinson succinctly reported a 4- year-old boy looking like an old man.1 Almost two decades later, a second similar case was reported, which was thereafter named Hutchinson-Gilford
progeria syndrome (HGPS).2 Accelerated or premature aging (
progeria) is a ver y rare genetic disorder, occurring in 1 per 4,000,000 live births; males are affected 1.5 times more than the females, and most cases have been repor ted from the Caucasians.
Nabi and Razia only found out about
progeria in 1995 after seeing an expert - who told them it was incurable.
A year later, Gordon, along with her sister and husband, founded the
Progeria Research Foundation.
The scientists tested the SATI technology in living mice with
progeria, which is caused by a mutation in the LMNA gene.
iPSCs may one day be best suited for delivering treatments for cellular aging-related diseases such as
progeria and ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease), but not other age-related diseases such as cancer because iPSCs are naturally designed for promoting cell growth and regeneration, a process that can fuel cancer.
Global Banking News-December 20, 2018-Eiger awarded US FDA's breakthrough therapy designation for lonafarnib for the treatment of
Progeria and progeroid laminopathies
Gerhard-Herman is supported by the
Progeria Research Foundation and Dr.
He discovers that seemingly perfect McKell has problems of her own, too: her father works a lot, her mother is depressed, and her brother Danny has
progeria, an extremely rare disease that he copes with by maintaining a website that focuses on the positive.