A new Duke University study has found that a blood test could show whether someone is going to live longer.
Over a 10-year period, researchers tested blood from more than 1,000 people ages 71 and older across North Carolina. The blood test predicted whether people live two, five, and ten years longer.
They found molecules called piRNAs that circulate in the blood. Duke University scientist and co-lead on the project Virginia Byers Kraus said they then learned that these tiny molecules showed who would live longer. The findings were published in the journal Aging Cell…