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Girl frozen in time may hold key to ageing

Posted by / May 9, 2010

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Brooke Greenberg is a seventeen-year-old girl with the body and behaviour of a baby. And until recently, she was considered a medical oddity. But now, upon further review of her DNA, scientists have concluded that her failure to grow might be linked to defects in the genes that make the rest of us age. If this is true, Greenberg’s DNA might hold the key to ageing, which could help doctors develop therapies for diseases linked to old age.

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  • Kevin

    No, she’s NOT aging….just look at her in the pic above. She’s tiny like a baby.