Scientists develop tool to 'tell how fast someone is ageing'


Scientists believe brain scans will soon be able to give us a clear picture of how fast we're ageing even decades before health problems appear on the horizon. — Photo: BENJAMIN NOLTE/dpa

Assessing how and why people age differently has long eluded doctors and scientists, particularly when there are no obvious explanations such as illness or history of injury.

But a team of researchers at Duke University, Harvard University and the University of Otago believe they could have solved the riddle by developing a brain scan-based tool they say can "tell how fast someone is ageing", be that physically or cognitively.

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