But this experiment isn't over. You can look at some animal cells too. Grab a fresh slide and pop a drop of your food colouring on there. Take your cotton bud and rub the inside of your cheek.

A new tool can predict how long you'll live just by looking at biological markers gathered with a simple cheek swab.

"The fact that our epigenetic clock trained on cheek cells predicts mortality when measuring the methylome in blood cells suggests there are common mortality signals across tissues," boasted Maxim ...

Could a Cheek Swab Predict When You Might Die? By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A new test called CheekAge, based on a quick swab of cells in the mouth ...

Now, experts could be one step closer to a ‘date of death’ test after discovering a simple cheek swab can accurately ... age from easy-to-collect cheek cells. Rather than a person’s actual ...

Pipetting liquids into tiny test tubes, analyzing huge datasets, poring over research publications—all these tasks are part ...

Until recently, all had been based on the DNA methylome of blood cells – onerous and stressful to collect. But now, scientists from the US have shown for the first time that their new epigenetic clock ...

But this experiment isn't over. You can look at some animal cells too. Grab a fresh slide and pop a drop of your food colouring on there. Take your cotton bud and rub the inside of your cheek.

The new CheekAge test is a kind of "epigenetic clock" that analyzes specific epigenetic DNA methylation markers in cells swabbed from the inside of the cheek. Related Study supports value of ...

The new CheekAge test is a kind of "epigenetic clock" that analyzes specific epigenetic DNA methylation markers in cells swabbed from the inside of the cheek. Certain patterns of methylation ...