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Cell Tree Rings, an approach that considers the shape of cell lineage trees to determine aging status.
Trees form distinctive rings, with a new circle of wood laid down each year, not only telling about the age of the tree but other environmental factors affecting it.
Somatic mutations are a part of aging and occur throughout the lifespan either spontaneously or as a direct response to stress.
Researchers say somatic mutations could potentially form the basis for a more fundamental aging clock.
Since the mutations are both markers and drivers of aging and have a natural timescale.
They have been able to reflect the somatic evolutionary process and they hypothesise, the aging status of the body.
AgeCurve Ltd has filed a patent called Cell Tree Rings: method and cell lineage tree-based aging timer for calculating biological age of a biological sample.
“Cell Tree Rings is the first industry-developed, ... potentially many more individual cells,” says Attila Csordas, CEO.
