Cells from patients with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) can be made healthy again, according to findings by scientists at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Published online on March 6, 2005 in Nature Medicine...
Reporter Christine Haran provides a top-line overview of Progeria and the current research findings reported in Nature and Journal of Pediatrics. Reporter Christine Haran provides a top-line overview of Progeria and the current research findings reported in Nature and...
August 2005 –February 2006: Researchers have published studies that support a potential drug treatment for children with Progeria. Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs), originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure...
