Researchers have found an effective replacement for Pap smears - DNA tests.

A new eight-year study of 130,000 women in India financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has found that a single screening with the DNA test beats all other methods (including Pap smears) at preventing advanced cancer and death.

Publishing their findings in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers are hoping the DNA test will eventually replace the Pap smear.

Read more about this exciting development here.