FRANKLIN TWP. -- During this lab on cells at Franklin Township School District's Caroline L. Reutter School, students from Ms. Miller's sixth grade science class prepared wet mount slides, learned ...

This Test Can Predict Your Risk Of Mortality, Study Shows You can read your biological clock with a simple swab of the cheek.

A new test called CheekAge, based on a quick swab of cells in the mouth, might someday be used to predict how long a person has to live, developers report.

A patient with a rare, aggressive, blastic plasmacytoid dendritic-cell neoplasm had tumor cells overexpressing BCL2 and had a response with a durable remission to venetoclax, a BCL2 inhibitor.

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Researchers found that the company’s CheekAge swab test is able to significantly simplify the collection of methylation data through cheek cells.

All living organisms are made up of cells. Cells are the smallest part of a living organism and are around 0.01 mm - 0.03 mm long. To look at a cell close up a microscope needs to be used.

Researchers examined cheek cells scraped from 150 confirmed lung cancer cases and 990 high-risk negative cases and found that the method yielded 66% sensitivity and 70% specificity.

Plant and animal cells can be seen with a microscope. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

This ability to affect cells far away from the source is called the "field effect" or "field of injury" effect and thus a simple cheek swab will reveal changes triggered by cancer cells in a ...