biological clock

Our biological clock can help predict how long we will live

A chemical modification to DNA, known as methylation, takes place throughout our lifetime, providing what could be considered a biological clock age. New research suggests that the biological clock age can tell us more about how long we will live than our actual age. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, worked in collaboration with researchers […]

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Wow of the Week: The sound of a ticking clock speeds up a woman’s biological clock?

Tick tock, tick tock! Your-ovaries-are-shriveling-up, goes the clock!  The sound of a ticking clock can speed up a lady’s urge to conceive before her childbearing years are over, a team of (sadistic?) Florida State University researchers have found. Two experiments were published recently in the journal Human Nature; the paper’s called “The Clock is Ticking: The Sound […]