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‹ Thu · 2 Jul 2026
Promising but preliminary

A comprehensive urine workflow enables robust methylation and fragmentation analysis of cell-free DNA.

Urine cell-free DNA testing now enables non-invasive cancer monitoring through a fully validated workflow.

This Sci Rep study from Heitzer and Deleuze labs presents a validated workflow for urine cell-free DNA isolation enabling both methylation profiling and fragmentation analysis from urine samples. The workflow expands liquid biopsy capabilities to this fully non-invasive source with particular relevance for urological cancer surveillance and broad cancer monitoring.

What the study was

Study design
Method development and validation study
Population
Patients providing urine samples for non-invasive cfDNA analysis
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Scientific reports

Why it surfaced

Sci Rep; urine cfDNA workflow for methylation+fragmentation by Heitzer (leading cfDNA group) and Deleuze (CEA/CNG); enables non-invasive monitoring expansion.

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