You may be 55 years old, but that does not necessarily mean your heart, liver, immune system and other organs are aging at the same pace. New research suggests different parts of the body can show ...

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...

In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the titular character (played by Brad Pitt) lives a life in reverse. He’s born an old man and grows younger as he ages, eventually dying a newborn infant. The ...

People whose hearts are biologically older than their actual age face a 50% higher risk of heart failure over the next two decades. Those with prematurely aged lungs are significantly more likely to ...

Our organs age at different rates, and a blood test determining how much they've each aged could predict the risk of conditions like lung cancer and heart disease decades later, finds a new study. Our ...

The candles on your birthday cake don’t tell the whole story. As anyone who ever attended a high-school reunion can tell you, some people age faster than others. Whoever put the candles on your cake ...

We all know that we age as time goes by, what may come as a surprise is that according to new studies, each of our organs seems to age at a different rate. For example, we may have a young brain and ...

Share on Pinterest The biological age of individual organs may be a good predictor of disease risk, a new study suggests. Image credit: LumiNola/Getty Images. Chronological age refers to how many ...