Brooke Greenberg looks like a toddler, but she is actually sixteen years old. She is only 30 inches high. Now scientists are studying her genome to figure out whether she possesses a mutation that prevents her body from
aging.
Greenberg also possesses the mental capacity of an infant, and has never learned to speak or eat on her own.
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.
It's unclear whether her capacity to heal is related to her agelessness, but researchers hope to find out.
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.
Currently geneticists are trying to isolate the gene or set of genes responsible for her bizarre aging process.
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