Scientists say the technology is still too new to tell you much about yourself unless you also see a doctor. Ads for biological age tests that promise to tell you if you have the body of somebody ...

DNA methylation data can be used to estimate biological age, but results across commercial tests differ, raising questions ...

In 2021, I mailed five pipettes of my blood to a lab. According to the results, my “biological age” was 17 years old. The odd part? I’d just celebrated my 29th birthday. For context, I was simply ...

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It’s important to understand what over-the-counter biological age test kits can — and can’t — do before buying them.

We all like to imagine we’re ageing well. Now a simple blood or saliva test promises to tell us by measuring our “biological age”. And then, as many have done, we can share how “young” we really are ...

The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge in organismal biology have increasingly required ...

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