Believe it or not, scientists at Boston University claim to have discovered a game-changing blood test that could help predict lifespans. The study, published in the journal aging Cell on Friday, used biomarker data collected from 5,000 blood samples and analyzed it against the donors` health developments over the subsequent eight years.
Together, they identified patterns which indicated both good and bad futures. Specifically, their chances of getting age-related diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.In all, the researchers generated 26 different predictive biomarker signatures.`These signatures depict differences in how people age and they show promise in predicting healthy aging, changes in cognitive and physical function, survival and age-related diseases like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.` It sets the stage for a molecular-based definition of…
