The number of candles on your birthday cake may tell you how many years you’ve been alive, but they reveal surprisingly little about how well your body is actually aging. Biological age—how your body ...

STANFORD, Calif. — A simple blood test might soon reveal whether your brain functions like a 30-year-old’s or a 70-year-old’s — and whether you’re likely to live a long, healthy life or face an early ...

What if your body was actually 10 years younger than your age? While you can't turn back time, you can control how well your ...

UW Medicine biology of aging researchers Daniel Raftery (left) and Shabnam Salimi worked on the Health Octo Tool to characterize people's biological ages and predict their risk of disability and death ...