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Decades of NIH research helped lead to the first FDA-approved treatment for progeria. NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., available to discuss this major advance for the rare, fatal pediatric disease, his lab’s research activities on progeria, including its involvement in the discovery of the gene responsible for the disease, the development of a …
Age is a leading risk factor for a number of conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease among others, such conditions make a real need for development of anti-aging therapies urgent. Salk Institute researchers may have developed a new gene therapy to help decelerate the aging process, as published in the journal Nature …