Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a groundbreaking diagnostic tool that could transform the way acute leukemia is identified and treated. The tool, called MARLIN (Methylation- ...

MSP: Methylation-specific PCR; MSRE: Methylation-sensitive restriction endonucleases; QMSP: Quantitative, methylation-specific PCR; X: Methylation associated with prognosis. Mohammad Obaidul Hoque, ...

The race for early cancer detection is one that physicians have been running for millennia. In one of humanity’s oldest surviving medical texts, the ancient Egyptian physician Imhotep described 46 ...

“[…]age estimation on blood stains from cancer patients might not result in significantly higher estimation errors, except for very aggressive forms of cancer ...

Cambridge, MA - Traditional bisulfite sequencing damages DNA, while enzyme-based alternatives are inconsistent. A novel methylation analysis method, called UMBS-seq, was published this week in Nature ...