{"id":99436,"date":"2019-12-07T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-develop-a-clock-to-measure-biological-age-based-on-blood"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:11","slug":"scientists-develop-a-clock-to-measure-biological-age-based-on-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-develop-a-clock-to-measure-biological-age-based-on-blood","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop a \u2018clock\u2019 to measure biological age based on blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-a-clock-to-measure-biological-age-based-on-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster of a person\u2019s age, scientists reported Thursday \u2014 though one\u2019s biological age, which doesn\u2019t always match one\u2019s number of years.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cproteomic clock,\u201d as the researchers call it, relies on measurements of levels of the proteins, which rise and fall over the years. While it\u2019s a nifty discovery, for now it remains just that. Researchers need to first develop a much better understanding of these proteins; if they can, they said, it might be possible to one day look at their levels to gauge the success of drugs being tested in clinical trials, or even to develop a therapy from a cocktail of proteins that could act like a rejuvenation boost or improve health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are these proteins so tightly linked to aging?\u201d said Tony Wyss-Coray, professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford and the senior author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-019-0673-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a><sup class=\u201d footnote\u201d>4<\/sup>, which was published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster of a person\u2019s age, scientists reported Thursday \u2014 though one\u2019s biological age, which doesn\u2019t always match one\u2019s number of years. This \u201cproteomic clock,\u201d as the researchers call it, relies on measurements of levels of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}