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A disease that makes children age rapidly gets closer to a cure
Health Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. Sam Berns, with his parents Leslie and Scott. Sam, a Foxborough High School student who had progeria, died in 2014 at …