Progeria: Real 'Benjamin Button'? Stem cells reverse aging in mice

In Kyle Mills' “The Immortalists,” microbiologist Richard Draman is desperately seeking a cure for Progeria, a genetic defect that causes rapid aging. His daughter Susie suffers from the defect, and at the beginning of the novel the reader gets aIt is, of course, decidedly interesting that barely a month after a number of sources I cited in Body Snatchers in the Desert stated that bodies displaying evidence of both dwarfism and Progeria (the latter a condition resulting in small

Read more ...