Ageing: The girls who never grow older

There are no conclusions or new research in this article.

Talks about some theories of the scientist interviewed about what aging is (Spoiler: He doesn't know and all current theories have flaws), wastes some time on human interest fluff, gives an interesting picture of girls with Syndrome X (that prevents them from developing, in a way that might be a lack of aging - if you've already heard about it there is nothing new here, if not this is a reasonable introduction), but has no conclusions or new information.

They are doing genetic testing of the girls involved, results are not in yet, this article should have waited for the results.

Having just become a father a few weeks ago, I'm beyond grateful that our son so far appears to be a healthy boy and when I read about parents having to deal with adverse health events of their children, I can't think of anything tougher to go through than that. I don't know if I would have the strength or resilience to do what these parents did (raise these girls, who never develop beyond infancy), nor do I know whether it's the "right thing to do" (or if there even is such a distinction under the circumstances), but I respect the hell out of them.

These are children who fail to reach maturity normally.

All of this was evidence of what Walker dubbed “developmental disorganisation”. Brooke’s body seemed to be developing not as a coordinated unit, he wrote, but rather as a collection of individual, out-of-sync parts. “She is not simply ‘frozen in time’,” Walker wrote. “Her development is continuing, albeit in a disorganised fashion.”

The first this subject came up here, someone pointed out this has nothing really to do with the aging that anyone would want to stop. It might help understand the process of development and maturation but it clearly won't help us directly stop aging.

And "never grow older" seems like a rather poor and even cruel way to describe a unfortunate syndrome.