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A new genetic test could one day be used to ... measured telomere length in cells taken from blood samples and compared them to individuals' life spans. The findings, reported in the Lancet ...

Preliminary results were presented this week at a cancer research conference in California and showed that a type of blood test called a “liquid biopsy” was key to achieving a 97% accuracy ...

A simple stress-test gadget could ... their office or help life insurance companies weed out high-risk customers. Scientists at Oxford University have developed a simple blood test to measure ...

The all-treatments group is still taking roughly twice as long as the all-controls group (starting from 19 months old, when the experiment began) to get down to a given survival percentage in males.

Ontario says it will spend $1 billion to extend the life of the biggest hydroelectric dams in the province. The project involves refurbishing the Sir Adam Beck I and II generating stations along ...

A chloride blood test is a blood test that determines how much chloride is in your body. Chloride is an electrolyte—and electrolytes are electrically charged minerals. They help your body ...

A PSA blood ... a PSA test include: Some prostate cancers are slow-growing and they never spread beyond your prostate gland. Therefore, not all cases of prostate cancer are life-threatening ...

Combining artificial intelligence (AI) with a simple blood test could help diagnose sepsis ... from the serious infection. Sepsis is life-threatening and can be difficult to spot, accounting ...

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A blood test appears capable of detecting early-stage pancreatic cancers with up to 97% accuracy, a new study reports. The test looks for eight small RNA particles and eight larger DNA markers ...

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