Girl who doesn’t age

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I recently read a very surprising news and I wanna share with you guys. It is about an American girl who doesn’t age and it may hold key to ageing. American scientists are keenly studying the DNA of a 17-year-old girl who still has the body and behaviour of a baby, hoping to gain new insights into the mysteries of ageing.

At 16lb in weight and just 30in tall, her name is Brooke Greenberg who is still the size of a one-year-old.

According to a preliminary study of her DNA, her failure to grow could be linked to defects in the genes that make the rest of humanity grow old.

According to the times, if confirmed, the research could give scientists a fresh understanding of ageing and even suggest new therapies for diseases linked to old age.

Richard Walker who is a professor at the University of South Florida School of Medicine, who is leading the research team said the following:

“We think that Brooke’s condition presents us with a unique opportunity to understand the process of ageing,”

“We think that she has a mutation in the genes that control her ageing and development so that she appears to have been frozen in time.

“If we can compare her genome to the normal version then we might be able to find those genes and see exactly what they do and how to control them.”

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