Medicine likes to present itself as a field of answers, but some of the strangest questions about our own bodies remain stubbornly open. Even with whole human genomes sequenced, AI scanning our scans, and lab tests for almost everything, there are conditions doctors still cannot fully explain, predict, or cure. For patients, these mysteries ...
For all the talk about precision medicine and gene editing, the truth is a little humbling: our own bodies still keep some of their biggest secrets from us. In labs and hospitals around the world, doctors quietly face cases that simply refuse to fit the textbooks, while common phenomena like chronic fatigue or long ...
Imagine waking up in your 20s with brittle bones, cataracts, graying hair of a 70-year-old, and unhealing wounds. For those with Werner syndrome, a rare genetic condition causing terrible acceleration of aging, this is their reality. Often referred to as “adult progeria,” this disorder compresses decades of decline into just years rather than merely mimics ...
