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The effects of old age on the human face. Portrait of Elisabetha Drum of Kittsee, Austria. Created by Michael Ströck

How old are you really?

... The team, from Duke University, also measured the 'pace of ageing' in the study group. This was calculated using the ... of those lines to produce an estimate for the pace of ageing. Most participants were found to be ageing at the expected rate of around 1 biological year per ...

Tubes of blood for a blood test

Gene signal informs Alzheimer's risk

... a profile covering 150 genes that can be used as a healthy ageing benchmark dubbed a "healthy ageing gene score" by the team. In the group of subjects ... examined, there was a 400 percent range in the healthy ageing gene score. "If we look at people aged 40 and 50, we ...