Beyond traditional monitoring of kidney transplant recipients, donor derived-cell free DNA may permit early identification of graft damage.

Liver scarring can pave the way to cancer down the line. A new blood test in development might help doctors spot it.

Study: Toward the simultaneous detection of multiple diseases with a highly cost-effective cell-free DNA methylome test. Image Credit: 3dMediSphere / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the ...

A noninvasive blood test to detect genetic material shed by tumors may help clinicians identify adverse events related to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs, investigators at the Johns ...

The vision of a single blood test that could screen for dozens of different cancers has tantalized oncologists for more than ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 85 and healthy apart from polycythemia vera, for which I take aspirin. I was interested in the new blood test for cancer. Is it worthwhile? Dear M.N.: When screening patients for ...

As the old saying goes: There’s no such thing as a free DNA test. Do-it-yourself DNA tests have taken off across the United States in recent years, but now officials are warning of scammers who ...