Organs age at different speeds: A blood test might soon tell which ones
AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine (LBI-NetMed) at the University of Vienna showed. By analyzing more than 25,000 tissue samples across 40 tissue types, their study reveals that…
Researchers from the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine have developed a blood test that could potentially determine the biological age of specific organs. By analyzing over 25,000 tissue samples from 40 different tissue types, the study found that organs age at different rates throughout life, and these changes can even be detected from blood samples.
The researchers used artificial intelligence to examine the microscopic architecture of tissues, revealing that age is the strongest factor shaping tissue appearance across all 40 tissue types. The study, published in Nature Medicine, provides a new framework for understanding aging and may open new avenues for disease monitoring and early diagnosis.
Brief written by urgent.news from Medical Xpress's own syndicated text. Machine-written — it may contain errors, so check the original before relying on it.
