Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks for Rare Diseases

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<span>Sam Burns</span> of Boston is a ninth-grader stranded in an 80-year-old man’s body. He has <span>progeria</span>, a <span>rare disease</span> that has aged his physique faster than his mind.</p>
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Although his condition boundary him physically, he says there’s zero he puts his mind to that he can’t do.</p>
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“When there is something we unequivocally wish to do that Progeria gets in a approach of, like marching rope or umpiring, we always find a approach to do it,” Sam told a throng of scarcely 1,500 people during a annual TedMed discussion currently in <span>Washington, D.C.</span></p>
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So don’t consider for a second that we can tell Sam there’s no <a href="http://www.progeriaresearch.org/assets/files/pdf/newsletters/PRF%20Newsletter%20Fall%202011.pdf">treatment for his condition</a>.</p>
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Although investigate for any diagnosis for any singular d...