Fasting Status and Epigenetic Clock Stability: Implications for Aging Research (opens in new tab)

Background: Epigenetic clocks are DNA methylation-based biomarkers increasingly used in aging research and clinical trials. A recent assessment of 18 clocks across multiple short-term perturbations concluded that most demonstrate only moderate biological reliability, raising concerns about their translational utility. However, understanding biological variability requires understanding the construction of each clock: different clocks capture distinct biological properties that respond differe...