Europe’s oldest sufferer of a rare ageing disease has told how in just 20 years his body has become that of a 160-year-old. Dean Andrews' body has aged eight times faster than normal due to a rare ...

Cláudia Amaral é um dos dois casos conhecidos em Portugal de progéria, uma síndrome genética extremamente rara em que se envelhece a uma rapidez incrível. Muito baixa e magra, como todas as pessoas ...

Currently there is no cure for progeria although scientists hope to reverse the disease in the future. There were reports in the 2006 issue of Chemistry and Industry that cancer-treating farnesyl ...

Children with progeria appear quite normal at birth. The earliest signs of progeria are scleroderma -like symptoms which manifest as changes on the skin. Within a year to two of birth, other physical ...