Wissenschaftler haben eine neue „transkriptomische Uhr“ entwickelt, die das biologische Alter durch Analyse der Genaktivität misst und das chronologische Alter einer Person, aber auch das erwartete Sterblichkeitsrisiko abschätzen kann
Scientists Created a New Biological Clock That Reveals How Much Time You Have Left
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Katherine Ryan has a podcast about this. It’s surprisingly good
Just according to cake.
I’m not sure I want to know when I’m going to die.
There are dozens if not hundreds of these transcriptomic clocks that scientists have created and they’re pretty much all mediocre at best. I think in the future this could be very interesting technology and what they’re building here are step stones towards that, but I wouldn’t put too much weight in current transcriptomic clocks.
Source:PhD in aging biology
Great , now it can be used on criminals pretending to be 14 when they are clearly 30
Science. Just because you *can* doesn’t always mean you *should*.
what’s different from existing clocks like horvath’s is it doesn’t just spit out one number. it breaks aging into separate modules, inflammation, energy production, tissue repair, each with its own clock. so instead of „you’re biologically 45“ you get „your inflammation is running old but your mitochondria are fine.“ that’s what makes it useful for testing interventions, you can see if a drug is hitting the pathway it’s supposed to