Think your looks belie your age? Soon there will be an app to tell you how old you really look, and whether your body’s age is out of whack with your chronological age.
“Our study is the first to use 3D facial images to predict biological age in a human population to identify fast and slow agers,” says Jing-Dong Han of the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences in China.
The aim, says Han, is to enable family doctors to easily identify patients who are ageing prematurely. If the cause can be identified, such as smoking, overeating or lack of exercise, people can then take action.
