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Biological age

Epigenetic and other clocks that measure how fast the body is aging.

Biological age Preprint 6 October 2026

A transplanted heart seems to take on the biological age of its new body

Old mouse hearts put into young mice became biologically younger, and young hearts in old mice aged faster. Biopsies from 11 heart-transplant patients pointed the same way. The study is a preprint.

Animal and human data

Biological age 6 October 2026

Women’s and men’s organs age differently, and aging clocks should know it

Most “biological age” tests are built from mixed data of women and men. A large study built separate clocks for each sex across 15 organ systems and found that they point to different weak spots and predict different diseases.

Observational study in people

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