Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging. Scientists may be on the verge of a cure.
How an Ultra-Rare Disease Accelerates Aging
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging. Scientists may be on the verge of a cure.
Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging: by the time children afflicted with it enter their teen-age years, their bodies have effectively aged eight or nine decades. Scientists may be closing in on a cure.
Battling a Disease That Brutally Ages Young Bodies
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
www.newyorker.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging: by the time children afflicted with it enter their teen-age years, their bodies have effectively aged eight or nine decades. Scientists may be closing in on a cure.
My favorite fashion is that which makes me look like a giant 6 year old with progeria
Happy Pride from Seattle!
Happy Pride from Seattle!
June 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM
My favorite fashion is that which makes me look like a giant 6 year old with progeria
Happy Pride from Seattle!
Happy Pride from Seattle!
Miller’s Progeria
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Miller’s Progeria
He looks like a 9-year-old child with advanced progeria, out on the greatest night of his life before dying quietly in his sleep just two hours later.
March 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
He looks like a 9-year-old child with advanced progeria, out on the greatest night of his life before dying quietly in his sleep just two hours later.
Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging: by the time children afflicted with it enter their teen-age years, their bodies have effectively aged eight or nine decades. Scientists may be closing in on a cure.
How an Ultra-Rare Disease Accelerates Aging
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
www.newyorker.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Progeria is a disease of rapid, brutal aging: by the time children afflicted with it enter their teen-age years, their bodies have effectively aged eight or nine decades. Scientists may be closing in on a cure.
I think he might have late-onset progeria.
July 3, 2026 at 4:41 AM
I think he might have late-onset progeria.
I think it's nice that they're giving this poor child such an extended Make-A-Wish. Progeria is an awful disease.
At once excited and terrified to find out how many parts there will be to the Spectator's interview with Dominic Cummings.
January 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I think it's nice that they're giving this poor child such an extended Make-A-Wish. Progeria is an awful disease.
Scientists may be able to cure the rare condition progeria, which rapidly ages those afflicted with it. The discovery could shed light on why we grow old.
Battling a Disease That Brutally Ages Young Bodies
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
www.newyorker.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Scientists may be able to cure the rare condition progeria, which rapidly ages those afflicted with it. The discovery could shed light on why we grow old.
Kid Rock, but progeria
June 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Kid Rock, but progeria
The rare, fatal disease progeria is caused by a spontaneous mutation, a C replaced by a T on chromosome 1—“the equivalent of a single typo,” Dhruv Khullar writes. Scientists may now be able to edit the DNA of those afflicted with it.
Battling a Disease That Brutally Ages Young Bodies
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
www.newyorker.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The rare, fatal disease progeria is caused by a spontaneous mutation, a C replaced by a T on chromosome 1—“the equivalent of a single typo,” Dhruv Khullar writes. Scientists may now be able to edit the DNA of those afflicted with it.
Muere a los 19 años Beandri Booysen, el influencer que visibilizó la progeria en Sudáfrica https://t.co/8tXYoliJb0
Muere a los 19 años Beandri Booysen, el influencer que visibilizó la progeria en Sudáfrica
La joven ha sido la única persona capaz de superar la esperanza de vida con progeria en Sudáfrica | Cadena SER
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December 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Muere a los 19 años Beandri Booysen, el influencer que visibilizó la progeria en Sudáfrica https://t.co/8tXYoliJb0
Sammy Basso, an advocate for research into progeria, an ultrarare fatal disease that causes rapid aging in children, died this month at 28. One of about 150 people known to have the condition, he sought to raise awareness and participated in the search for a cure. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/h...
October 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Sammy Basso, an advocate for research into progeria, an ultrarare fatal disease that causes rapid aging in children, died this month at 28. One of about 150 people known to have the condition, he sought to raise awareness and participated in the search for a cure. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/h...
God I miss when the worst Youtube people were the progeria brothers
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
God I miss when the worst Youtube people were the progeria brothers
Damn, hate and bigotry really do mimic progeria.
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Damn, hate and bigotry really do mimic progeria.
calliou is bald because god has cursed him with progeria for his many sins
October 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
calliou is bald because god has cursed him with progeria for his many sins
when i think about ai modules in search results i think about the time pre-ai when we tricked google into answering “why is caillou bald” with an @edsbs.bsky.social sentence about how much he sucks. smart speakers would read this to people who asked
April 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
when i think about ai modules in search results i think about the time pre-ai when we tricked google into answering “why is caillou bald” with an @edsbs.bsky.social sentence about how much he sucks. smart speakers would read this to people who asked
my childhood friend had a progeria that aged him by millennia, his connective tissues petrifying into silica by the 5th grade. chalcedony tony, we called him
May 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
my childhood friend had a progeria that aged him by millennia, his connective tissues petrifying into silica by the 5th grade. chalcedony tony, we called him
A new combination technique enables DNA sequencing and high-resolution imaging in intact cells — offering new insights into progeria and aging. broad.io/expansion-in-situ @jbuenrostro.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A new combination technique enables DNA sequencing and high-resolution imaging in intact cells — offering new insights into progeria and aging. broad.io/expansion-in-situ @jbuenrostro.bsky.social
it's like if richie rich had progeria
February 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM
it's like if richie rich had progeria
A strong hint from human genetics that changes in DNA methylation may be causal for normal aging. This is the direction that aging (and cancer) research needs to go!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A progeria syndrome links DNA hypermethylation to age-related pathology - Nature Genetics
This study investigates the consequences of hypermethylation in a progeria syndrome caused by gain-of-function DNMT3A mutations, finding effects on adult stem cell function.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
A strong hint from human genetics that changes in DNA methylation may be causal for normal aging. This is the direction that aging (and cancer) research needs to go!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I used to make jokes about progeria, but that got old fast.
March 12, 2024 at 9:10 PM
I used to make jokes about progeria, but that got old fast.
Love to tell people I'm forty-two years old and realize that their reactions of shock and awe suggest that they think I have some medical condition, like the opposite of progeria or whatever
Retrogeria??
Retrogeria??
January 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Love to tell people I'm forty-two years old and realize that their reactions of shock and awe suggest that they think I have some medical condition, like the opposite of progeria or whatever
Retrogeria??
Retrogeria??
Looks like if Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element had progeria
August 31, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Looks like if Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element had progeria