Leiden master’s student cracks epigenetic clock that predicts age – newsitem LUMC 14-01-2022
Researchers can accurately determine how old a person is based on the calibration of the DNA. To do this, they use a so-called epigenetic clock. Master's student Thomas Jonkman has now, nine years after the discovery, unravelled how this clock exactly works: it turns out to keep track of the ageing of our immune [...]