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Measuring Single-Cell Aging with an Imaging-based Biomarker of Chromatin and Epigenetic Aging
Published on: January 30, 2026
Integrative adaptive indexes from noisy routine haematological markers can predict and discriminate health status and
Santiago Hernández-Orozco1, Abicumaran Uthamacumaran1, Francisco Hernández Quiroz1
1Oxford Immune Algorithmics, Oxford University Innovation, London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, London, UK.
For more than two decades, advances in personalised medicine and precision healthcare have largely been based on genomics and other omics data. These strategies aim to tailor interventions to individual patient profiles, promising greater treatment efficacy and more efficient allocation of healthcare resources. Here, we show that widely collected common haematological markers can reliably predict and discriminate individual chronological age and health status from even noisy sources. Our analysis includes synthetic and real retrospective patient data, including medically relevant and extreme cases. We combine fully explainable risk assessment scores with machine intelligence to focus on clinically significant patterns and characteristics without functioning as a "black box" model and allowing interpretation and control tested on the US CDC NHANES database (100 000 participants) and validated with the UK Biobank (500 000 participants). Despite the noisy nature of these databases due to self-reporting and sparse data, the results remained relevant and statistically significant. Unlike current biological ageing indicators, this approach may offer rapid, and scalable implementations for personalised, precision and predictive approaches to healthcare and medicine without or before requiring other specialised, uncommon, or costly tests.
For more than two decades, advances in personalised medicine and precision healthcare have largely been based on genomics and other omics data. These strategies aim to tailor interventions to individual patient profiles, promising greater treatment efficacy and more efficient allocation of healthcare resources. Here, we show that widely collected common haematological markers can reliably predict and discriminate individual chronological age and health status from even noisy sources. Our analysis includes synthetic and real retrospective patient data, including medically relevant and extreme cases. We combine fully explainable risk assessment scores with machine intelligence to focus on clinically significant patterns and characteristics without functioning as a "black box" model and allowing interpretation and control tested on the US CDC NHANES database (100 000 participants) and validated with the UK Biobank (500 000 participants). Despite the noisy nature of these databases due to self-reporting and sparse data, the results remained relevant and statistically significant. Unlike current biological ageing indicators, this approach may offer rapid, and scalable implementations for personalised, precision and predictive approaches to healthcare and medicine without or before requiring other specialised, uncommon, or costly tests.
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