"Non–growing children" - the key to stopping aging?
A remedy for Alzheimer's is being sought in the genes of an 8-year-old baby
Gabby Williams’ Genetic Condition Prevents The 8-Year-Old From Aging).
The condition of a girl born eight years ago, who is still an infant in her mental and physical development, is called "biological immortality". Gabby wears clothes for children from 3 to 6 months old, requires constant care and regular feeding. According to her parents, the girl has hardly changed since birth.
In addition to a rare developmental anomaly, Gabby Williams is blind and will most likely never learn to speak. Gabby's condition, apparently, is not caused by hereditary factors – she has three sisters aged 9 to 2 years and a 6-year-old brother. All of them develop without any deviations.
According to Richard Walker, who has been studying the condition of Gabby Williams for the past two years, it is explained by the fact that one of the girl's genes responsible for the growth process of the body is damaged. Walker is conducting research at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He observes not only Gabby, his research also involves a 29-year–old resident of Florida, whose biological age is 10 years, as well as a 31-year-old Brazilian woman in the body of a 2-year-old girl.
In 2009, it became known about another patient in a similar condition – Brooke Greenberg, who at the age of 16 was at the level of development of a one-year-old child. She was also observed by Richard Walker, but at the time he was practicing at the University of South Florida.
Walker believes that if he can isolate the damaged gene in these patients, then it can be used to stop the aging process in the human body at his own request. If this technology becomes available to humans, it will help many patients prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease.
According to recently published research by the Stanford University School of Medicine, Alzheimer's disease is based on age-related disorders of the brain's immune system, which leads to excessive accumulation of one of the key proteins of this system at synapses and their subsequent degeneration.
According to the most common "amyloid" theory, the underlying cause of Alzheimer's disease – an incurable neurodegenerative disease – is the deposition of beta-amyloid protein in brain tissues, which leads to the accumulation of so–called amyloid plaques, degeneration of synapses - specific contacts between neurons that provide signal transmission from one nerve cell to another and, as a consequence, progressive cognitive dysfunctions.
Both theories are related to the aging process.
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