<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d07fc78-0069-4756-87e0-39a613d5d2f9/619B77F4-3202-4626-B55C-5E570CA545D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process" href="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/B51D2868-2ACD-410E-9C93-575A11B3DCA8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process"><A href="http://io9.com/tag/brooke-greenberg/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BROOKE GREENBERG" class="autolink" linkindex="42">Brooke Greenberg</A> looks like a toddler, but she is actually sixteen years old. 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Now scientists are studying her genome to figure out whether she possesses a mutation that prevents her body from <A href="http://io9.com/tag/aging/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged AGING" class="tagautolink autolink" linkindex="43">aging</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process">Greenberg also possesses the mental capacity of an infant, and has never learned to speak or eat on her own.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process">She has also suffered from several strange maladies, including burst ulcers, a stroke and a brain tumor, which healed after Greenberg appeared on the verge of death.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process">It's unclear whether her capacity to heal is related to her agelessness, but researchers hope to find out.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process"><P> Greenberg sleeps in a crib, and attends school. Her teachers and family aren't sure how much she understands, but they say she recognizes people familiar to her and likes to play and laugh.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5302372/infant+sized-teenager-may-provide-key-to-reversing-the-aging-process">Currently geneticists are trying to isolate the gene or set of genes responsible for her bizarre aging process.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/619B77F4-3202-4626-B55C-5E570CA545D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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