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Autonomous AI Agents Discover Aging Interventions from Millions of Molecular Profiles

Kejun Ying, Alexander Tyshkovskiy, Alibek Moldakozhayev +28 more
November 2025
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10.1101/2023.02.28.530532
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By turning millions of existing molecular profiles into an aging discovery engine, this work identifies 500+ rejuvenating interventions invisible to original investigators and establishes that loss-of-function strategies systematically outperform gain-of-function—redefining how longevity research mines its own past.

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Summary

Systematic reanalysis of approximately 2 million human and mouse molecular profiles through AI agents and over 40 aging clocks reveals 5,756 previously unrecognized age-modifying interventions across 43,529 comparisons, with experimental validation demonstrating that the top-scoring AI-identified candidate ouabain reduces frailty progression, improves cardiac function, and decreases neuroinflammation in aged mice, establishing a paradigm where autonomous AI systems can extract actionable longevity interventions from existing datasets never originally analyzed for aging effects.

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Main Claim 1 –

ClockBase Agent integrates 2 million profiles with 40+ aging clocks

Supporting evidence

  • Biological age atlas spans 2,048,729 methylation and RNA-seq samples
Main Claim 2 –

AI reanalysis finds 5,756 significant age-modifying interventions

Supporting evidence

  • Loss-of-function genetics outperform gain-of-function and match lifespan databases
  • Expert review validates AI agents at 99.27% analytical accuracy
Main Claim 3 –

Ouabain improves frailty, cardiac function, and neuroinflammation in aged mice

Supporting evidence

  • Ouabain reduces frailty index progression without adverse effects in aged mice
  • Ouabain alters metabolism without harming body composition or energy balance
  • Ouabain increases cardiac output in aged mice
  • Ouabain reduces hippocampal neuroinflammation via increased microglial ramification

Abstract

Decades of publicly available molecular studies have generated millions of samples testing diverse interventions, yet these datasets were rarely analyzed for their effects on aging. Aging clocks now enable biological age estimation and life outcome prediction from molecular data, creating an opportunity to systematically mine this untapped resource. We developed ClockBase Agent, a publicly accessible platform that reanalyzes millions of human and mouse methylation and RNA-seq samples by integrating them with over 40 aging clock predictions. ClockBase Agent employs specialized AI agents that autonomously generate aging-focused hypotheses, evaluate intervention effects on biological age, conduct literature reviews, and produce scientific reports across all datasets. Reanalyzing 43,602 intervention-control comparisons through multiple aging biomarkers revealed thousands of age-modifying effects missed by original investigators, including over 500 interventions that significantly reduce biological age (e.g., ouabain, KMO inhibitor, fenofibrate, and NF1 knockout). Large-scale systematic analysis reveals fundamental patterns: significantly more interventions accelerate rather than decelerate aging, disease states predominantly accelerate biological age, and loss-of-function genetic approaches systematically outperform gain-of-function strategies in decelerating aging. As validation, we show that identified interventions converge on canonical longevity pathways and with strong concordance to independent lifespan databases. We further experimentally validated ouabain, a top-scoring AI-identified candidate, demonstrating reduced frailty progression, decreased neuroinflammation, and improved cardiac function in aged mice. ClockBase Agent establishes a paradigm where specialized AI agents systematically reanalyze all prior research to identify age-modifying interventions autonomously, transforming how we extract biological insights from existing data to advance human healthspan and longevity.

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