Researchers from Prof. Yardena Samuels’s lab manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new approach that gives hope to patients with previously untreatable disease

While everyone’s heart has an exact chronological age, it also has a ‘biological’ age associated with how well it is functioning. 

Researchers have used data from almost half a million standard 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECG) to create an algorithm to predict the heart’s biological age 

Modelling from the study showed that biological heart age exceeding chronological age by 7 years increased risk of all-cause mortality by 62% and doubled the risk of major adverse cardiovascular adverse (MACE). 

Technology could be used to identify individuals with higher biological heart age and target them for intensive interventions 

The new test for silicosis has shown promise in an early study, and is now being analysed in larger cohorts.