Gabby Williams has the facial features and skin of a
newborn, and she is just as dependent. Her mother feeds, diapers and
cradles her tiny frame as she did the day she was born.
The little girl from Billings, Mont., is 8 years old, but weighs only
11 pounds. Gabby has a mysterious condition, shared by only a handful
of others in the world, that slows her rate of aging.
Meanwhile, medical researcher Richard F. Walker, who has been trying to find the genetic off-switch to stop the aging process, has been studying Gabby from last two years along with two other people who have striking similarities.
Walker explained that physiological change, or what he calls 'developmental inertia', is essential for human growth as humans never develop without that process.
The doctor said if they could identify the gene and then at young adulthood they could silence the expression of developmental inertia, they will be able to achieve biological immortality .
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