New lifespan “score” can help predict how long you might live

How can we know how long we’re going to live? The true answer is that we can’t, but new research from the University of Edinburgh may help give some people a better idea of their projected lifespan. In recent research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting, scientists detail how they devised a way to estimate whether an individual can expect to live longer or shorter on average. Their approach came from studying the effect of genetic variations on lifespan across the human …