Current tick testing often involves waiting up to six weeks for results, allowing a possible Lyme infection to spread, not to mention, many blood tests can miss early-stages of the disease.

UCLA researchers have created a blood test that can scan DNA signals for multiple cancers, liver diseases, and signs of organ damage—and even indicate where trouble may be developing. Early results ...

But that can come with dangers, and ticks, which can transmit Lyme disease, top the list. Not every tick carries Lyme, however—and there's no way to know whether the one that's bitten you does, unless ...

A non-invasive test — that can be done entirely from home — is saving lives from colorectal cancer, a new study suggests.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have added nearly 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s national criminal database in 2025, according to a Georgetown Law analysis that suggests ...

Nearly four decades after an 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her Deerfield Beach apartment, her alleged attacker ...

A jury convicted a 58-year-old man on two counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, and abduction with intent to defile in a 1996 cold case. Melvin Antonio Cuffee was identified as ...

When at-home colorectal cancer tests hit the market years ago, they were seen as a more convenient but less precise alternative to a colonoscopy. But a new study led by a Rutgers University doctor ...

LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet ...

A Norfolk jury convicted a 58-year-old man Friday in a nearly 30-year-old rape case after new DNA testing linked him to the ...

SimpleScreen CRC is a new FDA-approved blood test that screens for colorectal cancer. Patients can ask their doctor to order the test, have their blood drawn at the office, and receive results in ...

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