Ecuadorian dwarfs have super hearts, live longer and don’t get cancer
There are a few hundred worldwide, no more than 400-500. Carriers of a rare genetic mutation which causes a disease associated with a form of dwarfism (Laron syndrome or Ghrd, growth hormone receptor deficiency), but also confers advantages: first of all super longevity (mice with the same mutation live 40% longer) and then a very […]