Blood test to reveal age
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Your support makes all the difference.Researchers have developed a new method of estimating a person's age from their blood, which could give detectives investigating a crime a crucial lead.
Existing methods rely on teeth, bones or other body parts. The test, developed at Erasmus University in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, takes advantage of a characteristic of immune cells known as T cells, the researchers report online in Current Biology.
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