We all know that injuries which occur inside the mouth heal much quicker than those on the outside of the body. Scientists ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published ...

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Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

Scientists used cheek swabs from participants aged from 18 to 93. They paired patterns of DNA methylation in the cheek cells to determine an overall health score, which also considers factors such ...

“We found that even though CheekAge was trained on cheek cells collected using a painless swab test, it was nevertheless highly associated with mortality risk in this blood longitudinal dataset ...

A simple cheek swab test called CheekAge may be able to predict a person's increase in mortality risk, according to its developers.

A test that uses cells from the inside of your cheek may accurately predict the risk of death within the upcoming year, new research hints. This study, published Oct. 1 in the journal Frontiers in ...

Specifically, it appears that Tally Health is already selling its cheek swab tests, though it's unclear if the methodology boasted in this new paper is the same that's included in the $250 box kit ...

The fact that CheekAge was still able to do its job even when sampling blood instead of cheek cells is impressive. However, it is still a long way from being able to fully predict how long you ...