US Edition'Old' Brains Increase Risk of Death, Alzheimer's, Study Says
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 9 – The blood test analyzes nearly 3,000 proteins to predict aging speed of 11 organs and risks for diseases like Alzheimer's, with brain age strongly linked to mortality, researchers said.
- In Nature Medicine Wednesday, Stanford University researchers unveiled a blood-based tool, spearheaded by Tony Wyss-Coray, that computes organ biological age from a single blood vial.
- Recognizing chronological age's limits highlighted the need for biological age, processed for 45,000 UK Biobank participants over 17 years.
- Using advanced laboratory technology describes nearly 3,000 proteins in blood samples, an artificial intelligence algorithm compares protein levels to age-adjusted averages.
- Wyss-Coray said, 'Assess the age of an organ today and predict the odds of your getting a disease associated with that organ 10 years later,' highlighting the predictive power of brain's biological age in determining lifespan.
- Despite research-only availability, Wyss-Coray plans to commercialize the tool within two to three years, according to his statement.
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Stanford researchers develop new tool to measure biological age
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new tool that can compute the “biological age” of human organs by processing a single vial of blood. The tool, unveiled in Nature Medicine Wednesday morning, was developed by a research team spearheaded by Tony Wyss-Coray. Wyss-Coray, a Stanford Medicine professor who has spent almost 15 years fixated on the study of aging, said that the tool could “change our approach to health care.” “It coul…
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