A researcher describes a new method to measure inflammation from a selfie photo. The technique is less accurate than blood tests but costs almost nothing and can show whether inflammation is high right now. It's part of a push to make aging tests available to everyone, not just people who can afford expensive labs.
You are really important researcher and head of your sector for aging studies at the Buck Institute, which is the premier aging study institute. If I ask you, what are you the most excited about in biological age testing?
My interest at the moment and the vision is to be able to democratize everything, to make it available to every one individual in this planet, to try to bring things to the masses, to bring the cost down. I've been developing tools that simply with a selfie. Right. I call that healthy selfie. You can measure inflammation in the body. It has certain level of error in the measurement, so it's not as accurate as a blood test, but it tells you where you're at and what are the potential causes of it. So that's, I think, what needs to happen and what's coming.
