Re: Bio: Premature Aging; Also, Telomerase (was: Transplants)

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Oct 25 1997 - 05:41:05 MDT


CALYK@aol.com writes:

> Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> said:
>
> >I don't think that works. Progeria makes aging faster, not development
> >(otherwise the victims would grow up into adults instead of becoming
> >"ancient dwarves").
>
> Do you know where they are coming on advanced/faster growth? Like the rate
> at which something grows?

As far as I know, there are no known diseases that make humans grow up
significantly faster than normally. Very early puberty is known, but
it seems to be a hormonal problem and has nothing to do with overall
development. Diseases that release large amounts of growth hormone of
course speed up growth a lot, but it tends to be rather crude and
leads to acromegalia.

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