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SUMMARY:Can we distinguish the biology of ageing from age-related disease 
 in humans? - Professor James Timmons\, King's College London\, London\, Un
 ited Kingdom
DTSTART:20170222T093000Z
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CONTACT:Ilana Spilka
DESCRIPTION:In a medical context\, replacement of chronological age with 
 ‘biological age’ could revolutionize medical screening with the aim of
  postponing chronic and costly diseases of old-age. OMIC technologies\, pa
 rticularly RNA\, are yielding promising medical diagnostics and prognostic
 s guiding cancer treatment and cardiovascular procedures. A valid and clin
 ically informative diagnostic of biological age\, combined with disease-sp
 ecific biomarkers has the potential to revolutionize approaches to clinica
 l trials\, and maximizing the potential for healthy-ageing. I will review 
 some basic principles that should govern the generation of valid ‘ageing
 ’ diagnostics\, including how such an assay could be used in the clinic\
 , using the field of dementia as an illustrative example
LOCATION:Online
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