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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Thanks to new research, anti-aging medications may soon be possible.
Scientists have pinpointed for the first time biomarkers that predict both chronological and physiological age. Chronological age is how old you are counting forward from birth, and physiological age is how old you look and function. The two are rarely in sync.
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Researchers looked at genetic profiles of 104 worms throughout their entire lifespan and correlated that with age-related behavior and survival. While doing that, they discovered a group of genes actively involved in the aging process.
The discovery could lead to clinical trials for anti-aging medicines.
This is the first evidence that physiological age can be predicted non-subjectively, Simon Melov, Ph.D., a faculty member at the Buck Institute for Age Research and lead author of the study, was quoted as saying. Our results were not perfect, but we were able to predict the ages of the animals 70 percent of the time, which is far better than anything that has been done before.
SOURCE: Aging Cell, published online November 20, 2008
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