In children with progeria, a mutant protein accumulates in blood vessel cells, hampering their ability to grow and multiply or killing them outright. In mice that produce this same toxic protein, the ...

UCLA researchers found that an experimental cancer drug improves the signs of progeria in a mouse model. Progeria is a rare genetic disease causing accelerated aging and cardiovascular disease in ...

Leslie Gordon's son Sam was 22 months old when he was diagnosed with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome, a devastating disease in which children age rapidly and usually die between their 7th and ...

Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. By Gina Kolata A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on ...

A ground-breaking online community has been launched to allow people with the rare disease Progeria to communicate regardless of their location or language. Progeria Connect, a new partnership between ...

What if your child was aging eight times faster than normal? That’s the harsh reality of Progeria, a rare condition that causes premature aging in young children. Diagnosed between 18–24 months, it’s ...

Shares of Telomir Pharmaceuticals surged during after-hours trading Thursday following the announcement of early laboratory data from research conducted on progeria-affected cells from a young patient ...

Kristi speaks with Dr. Leslie Gordon with the Progeria Research Foundation. Kristi speaks with Dr. Leslie Gordon, a cofounder and volunteer medical Director for the Progeria Research Foundation. She ...

“How much longer?” is a question all too familiar to parents. This is also a question that scientists ask themselves when trying to find a truly effective treatment for patients with the ...