Category: Genetics

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You may have heard the term ‘liquid biopsy.’ Most often referring to cancer detection, such technology aims to find materials circulating in the blood that give clues to a tumor’s presence. Now such a strategy is being used to look …

Can a blood test for DNA predict Alzheimer’s disease and frailty? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Some cancer tests and prenatal assessments already use DNA found circulating in someone’s blood to look for certain cancers or assure the health of a fetus. Now Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues are using such …

A blood test looking for your DNA is proving increasingly useful, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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You have quite a lot of the genetic material DNA circulating in your bloodstream. Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, is looking at DNA from two different sources to provide information on aging. Abadir: The genomic DNA is …

Your own genetic material from two cellular locations can be found in your blood, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »