Cell Reports Medicine
Translating cellular aging clocks into disease risk prediction

Cohort study of 60,000 peopleBiomarkers
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Abstract
Ding et al. mapped over 7,000 plasma proteins to more than 40 cell types and developed machine learning aging clocks across 60,000 individuals, demonstrating that cell-type-specific biological aging is heterogeneous, measurable from blood alone, and powerfully predictive of neurodegenerative disease, cancer, and mortality up to 15 years before clinical onset.¹.
The paper
American University in Cairo; Trinity College Dublin
Cell Reports Medicine, 18 Aug 2026


