A routine blood draw may one day help catch one of the world’s most common kidney cancers before it spreads, according to a study published in Epigenetics Communications. Researchers in Japan report t ...

Researchers led by the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea, have checked the performance of a noninvasive urinary DNA methylation test for bladder cancer diagnosis. Findings indicate that ...

Various urine tests are showing promise for the diagnosis and surveillance of urothelial carcinoma, including bladder cancer and UTUC.

A paired-sample study of 38 melanoma patients reveals that metastases undergo coordinated DNA methylation reprogramming largely independent of driver mutations, with tumor mutation burden dropping in ...

Interest in longevity science and precision health has driven attention toward epigenetic testing, which provides a deeper understanding of biological age compared to traditional lab assessments.

A new DNA methylation-based blood test can identify type 2 diabetes patients at the highest risk of heart attack or stroke years in advance, beating traditional risk scores and opening the door to ...

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification in which a methyl group is added to a DNA base without changing the underlying DNA sequence. In mammals, the best-known form is 5-methylcytosine (5mC), ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has detailed the development of a machine learning model to predict DNA methylation status in cell-free DNA by its fragmentation patterns, according to findings published ...