#progeria

[disability-shout-outs]

Shout out to folks with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome!

[gwydionmisha]

Battling a Disease That Brutally Ages Young Bodies

Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we gr

[l5-gbsdehorizon]

We verdiepen ons in het verhaal van Michiel en Amber. Ze hebben allebei de zeldzame ziekte ‘progeria’ waarbij ze versneld ouder worden.

Hij is nu 24, maar zijn lichaam wel 8 keer ouder. 192 jaar!

Ze geven een belangrijke boodschap mee om jezelf te zijn en te genieten van elke dag! ❤️

[mellamame]

[chinotelible]

[donteverl0sehope]

She's so silly, she uses her eye-shadow as blush c': Even then i hired her to be my personal make-up artist. She says she charges 3 m&m's per minute, she doesn't work cheap! 

[sytycdinternational]

Anton Lushichev & Mikhail Kilimchuk / «Progeria» by Bachar Mar-Khalifé / Modern / Choreography by Dima Maslennikov / Top 18 Perform

[neurosciencenews]

Protein Turnover Could Be Clue to Living Longer

It may seem paradoxical, but studying what goes wrong in rare diseases can provide useful insights into normal health. Researchers probing the premature aging disorder Hutchinson-Gilford progeria have uncovered an errant protein process in the disease that could help healthy people as well as progeria sufferers live longer.

The research is in Nature Communications. (full open access)