United States: As we go through life, and we usually experience some gradual changes from birth to old age. However, if you ever wake up one day, look in the mirror, and feel like you’ve suddenly gotten much older, you might not be imagining it. Sometimes, changes in how we look, and feel can happen faster than we actually expect.
By comparing the aging-related molecular vibration, humans hit a bad note of quickening, on an average, twice, first roughly at 44 and the second one around 60.
As reported by sciencealert.com, when the study came out in August, Michael Snyder, a geneticist at Stanford University, described the process with clarity: “We’re not simply evolving slowly over time, there are certain changes that are amazingly profound,”
Well, it is said that the mid of forty is rather critical as well as the early sixties. And that’s the case regardless of which class of molecules you care to examine.”
Old age is something that holds many risks of getting sick in all ways possible.
Snyder and his colleagues have been studying the biology of aging with the goal of a) identifying what changes occur, and b) how these changes can be ameliorated, if not reversed, so as to treat the diseases that occur due to aging. For this purpose, they have been following 108 adults over different years, providing biological samples at 4 months interval.
They pointed out that in some diseases including Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular diseases, risk does not increase with time, but with certain age it starts to significantly increase. So they wanted to have a better look at the biomarkers ASY and ASO to see if they could identify related changes.
In the present study, the researchers note various sorts of biomolecules by tracking them using the samples from their group. These include RNA, proteins, lipids, and microbiota at gut, skin, nasal and oral sites, hence 135239 features of biology.
Each participant provided approximately 47 samples per participant over 626 days with the longest serving participant providing 367 samples. This volume of data therefore produced over 246 billion points and the researchers analyzed the changes in the data.