Unfortunatelly, science now remain very far from interventions that can eliminate the aging process.
A story has recently entered the news about a rare disorder in which children don’t appear to age. The punchline of this story is perhaps this disease holds the clue to immortality (or close to it). An eight year old girl in Montana named Debbie is said to have not aged since birth. She weighs about 12 pounds and has only recently moved into the 3-6 months clothes size. Her condition is so rare it isn’t yet named.
There are a handful of other people like her in the world including a 29 year old Florida man who appears to be 10 years old.Researchers don’t know what genetic flaw or mutation is severely slowing the aging process in these individuals, but unfortunately it also makes them deaf and mute.The scientist studying them believes it might be possible to find the genetic switch that is stopping aging and to one day turn it on (or off) in normal adults.It certainly makes the most sense that aging is evolutionarily and thus genetically determined.
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