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Chengyong Yang: Can Plasma Reveal Cell Specific Signals
Aug 12, 2026, 08:16

Chengyong Yang: Can Plasma Reveal Cell Specific Signals

Chengyong Yang, Founder at Ascend Biosciences, shared Sarantis Chlamydas‘ post on LinkedIn, adding:

“The interesting part here isn’t the clock – it’s that plasma can resolve cell-type signal at all.

Plasma is a bulk mixture.

Getting cell-specific information out of it only becomes possible once you’re measuring enough proteins that tissue-of-origin signatures start to separate.

That’s a threshold effect, and it’s why this kind of work wasn’t feasible with 50-plex panels a few years ago.

We run Olink panels day to day, and this is a good illustration of why breadth matters even when you think you know which proteins you care about.

The finding here isn’t in any single marker – it’s in the pattern across hundreds of them.

The open question, as with every aging clock: does it move when you intervene?

Cross-sectional association with chronological age is the easy part.

A clock that shifts in response to treatment is a different and much more valuable thing.”

Sarantis Chlamydas, Head of Human Health and MultiOmics Strategy at Thermo Fisher Scientific, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“What if we could measure how fast our cells are aging?

A new Nature Medicine study using Olink proteomics takes a major step in that direction developing protein-based clocks that capture aging at the cellular level.

The future of biological age may be cell-specific.”

Title: Plasma proteomic signatures of cellular aging predict human disease

Authors: Daisy Yi Ding, Veronica Augustina Bot, Kenneth L. Chen, James W. Groves, Róbert Pálovics, Daisuke Masuda, Amelia Farinas, Hamilton Se-Hwee Oh, Viktoria Wagner, Nannan Lu, Carlos Cruchaga, Alina Isakova, Jonathan M. Schott, Tony Wyss-Coray

Chengyong Yang: Can Plasma Reveal Cell Specific Signals

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