When Kathleen Aukstikalnis was expecting her first baby, she turned to a common prenatal test that a lot of her friends had gotten done during their pregnancies. The simple blood test looks at DNA ...

Blood plasma can harbor DNA changes that could flag cancer years before existing diagnostic tests, an early study hints. The recent study, published May 22 in the journal Cancer Discovery, found ...

Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Photo credit: today.ucsd.edu/ Scientists from UC San Diego, along with ...

Two bacteria are sitting near free-floating DNA. Suddenly, one bacterium shoots out a long appendage, latches onto a DNA fragment and reels in its catch. It happens fast, but it’s clear: this organism ...

When women get a blood test during pregnancy that looks at free-floating DNA, they expect it to tell about the health of the fetus. But the test sometimes finds signs of cancer in the mother. (Isabel ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists say blood plasma can carry signs of cancer years before the disease is typically ...

Testing pregnant people's blood to look at free-floating DNA can tell doctors about the health of the fetus. But these tests sometime turn up DNA... A new kind of blood test can screen for many ...