Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South African TikTok star Beandri Booysen has died after a courageous battle with progeria, a rare disorder that caused her to age ...

One of TikTok’s brightest stars has passed away. South Africa’s Beandri Booysen has died following a life-long battle with the Progeria, her family confirmed. She was 19. “It is with deep sadness that ...

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 ...

Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, is a rare disorder that profoundly reshapes the lives of those affected. This condition manifests through a paradox of youth and premature ...

In the Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, Victoria Clark plays a teenager with a rare fatal disease that causes premature aging. Clark is 63 years old in real life, but her character has just turned 16 ...

In the spring of 2005, families affected by progeria welcomed the news from two studies that uncovered new information about this rare, devastating condition that causes premature aging in children.

In 1996, Leslie Gordon, a biologist and a pediatrics resident at a hospital in Rhode Island, gave birth to a son, Sam. For a few months, Sam seemed healthy. But Gordon and her husband, a pediatric ...

In 2009, a landmark film featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Vidya Balan was released and quickly became a favourite of critics and film enthusiasts for many reasons, but significantly ...

CRISPR gene editing has been used to more than double the lifespan of mice engineered to have the premature ageing disease progeria, also greatly improving their health. The results far surpassed ...