Patients with progeria die at an average age of 14.5 years, mostly from heart attack, heart failure, or stroke. In previous ...

Tiffany Wedekind from Columbus, Ohio, suffers from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, which causes patients to age 10 ...

But the infants' unusual mutations caused them to make many more bad copies of the gene's primary protein, lamin A, than progeria patients. Both infants died very young and before researchers ...

A relief from lifelong anemia and excruciating attacks of pain is now being delivered to sickle cell patients, albeit at very high cost. For progeria and thousands of other genetic diseases ...