Hope For Progeria - Successfully Validated On Mice, A Treatment Could Soon Be Tested On Children

Five years after the identification of the gene responsible for progeria, a rare disease causing accelerated and premature ageing, a team of Spanish and French researchers (Carlos Lopez-Otin and coll. - University of Oviedo - and Nicolas Levy and coll. - Inserm/AP-HM, Marseille, France) have successfully demonstrated a treatment for the disease, using mice.

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