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What Is Biological Age?

7 min readDec 26, 2020

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Yūichirō Miura, at the age of 80, became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest | Photo on considerable.

What’s The Difference?

Every year, on your birthday, you celebrate an increase in your chronological age, but your biological age doesn’t change as periodically | Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

The Epigenetic Clock

This figure shows methyl groups being added to proteins called histones, which then tightly coil the DNA so that the genes can’t be accessed. Methyl tags can also be added directly to the DNA molecule to make it inaccessible (not shown in the figure) | Figure by Lumen Learning

Implications of Knowing Your Biological Age

Key Takeaways

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Biotein is a startup that aims to find targeted therapies to ensure quality of health for all ages.

Akshaj Darbar
Akshaj Darbar

Written by Akshaj Darbar

MD Candidate at McMaster University. Researching blood cancer detection. www.akshajdarbar.com

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