What a coincidence!

Just as I finished writing the post about modeling Progeria disease with stem cells, I came across this tweet from New Scientist:

The children who grow old before they grow up>> Could they hold key to longer lives? 

 

My take on this, is that Progeria is caused by the presence of Progerin, a mutated form a LMNA. So unless old people get this mutation and accumulate high levels of Progerin protein, it is a tough call to say that we can deduce conclusive information about the normal process of ageing from studying Progeria Syndrome.