5/18/2011 PERMALINK
Telomere measuring blood test estimates your remaining life span. A new blood test from a Spanish company called Life Length will soon be released in the United Kingdom that is designed to measure the remaining length of your telomeres. Telomeres are DNA sections that serve as end caps on your chromosomes. They effectively preventing replication errors of critical the gene segments that cause the loss of cell function associated with aging.
"Knowing whether our telomeres are a normal length or not for a given chronological age will give us an indication of our health status and of our physiological 'age' even before diseases appear," said Maria Blasco, the test's inventor and head of telomeres research at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.