In Kyle Mills' “The Immortalists,” microbiologist Richard Draman is desperately seeking a cure for Progeria, a genetic defect that causes rapid aging. His daughter Susie suffers from the defect, and at the beginning of the novel the reader gets a

Progeria is one of the rarest genetic conditions in the world where a normal child starts aging fast after he or she is one year old. The aging process is similar to that of an elderly person only that in this case it is accelerated. Ironically, it is not

Progeria is a rare genetic condition that produces rapid aging in children. It is a rare condition that is remarkable because its symptoms strongly resemble normal human aging, but occur in young children. It usually is not passed down through

Progeria is one of the rarest genetic conditions in the world where a normal child starts aging fast after he or she is one year old. The aging process is similar to that of an elderly person only that in this case it is accelerated. Ironically, it is not

It is, of course, decidedly interesting that barely a month after a number of sources I cited in Body Snatchers in the Desert stated that bodies displaying evidence of both dwarfism and Progeria (the latter a condition resulting in small stature,