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Do Aging Clocks Actually Work?

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There are tests now that claim to measure how old you really are. Not the number on your birth certificate, but your biological age, the idea being that two people born on the same day can be aging at different speeds, and that a blood or saliva sample can tell them apart. It starts with a discovery from fifteen years ago, that chemical marks on your DNA shift as you get older. Since then, the clocks built on it have moved fast, from reading your age, to forecasting how long you have left, to...

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