In addition to designing epigenetic tests that measure the impact of cigarette and alcohol consumption on DNA methylation, we're also involved in impactful and important research.

Read about some of our most recent work ...
A Potential Tool for Incentivizing Healthy Aging
Contingency management strategies can be used to treat smoking, but they require objective methods to verify quitting status.

To test whether methylation can be used to verify cessation, we determined monthly cg05575921 levels in 67 self-reported smokers undergoing biochemically monitored contingency management-based smoking cessation therapy as part of a lung imaging protocol.

Findings conclude that DNA methylation may be a useful tool to guide and incentivize contingency management-based approaches for smoking cessation.

A University of Iowa professor, Rob discovered the epigenetic methods for detecting and measuring patterns of cigarette and alcohol consumption. This discovery proved that consumption is correlated with—and can be measured by—changes in DNA methylation.