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Cover: E. Grafton / Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine; Above (top right): Two Pore Guys;
(top left) Sriram Subramaniam / National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; (middle left) vchal / Getty Images;
(bottom left) Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego; (bottom right) robuart / Getty Images
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VOL. 4, Issue No. 6 November/December 2017
3 | NEWS
Repair Rather than Replace
Feng Zhang-Led Team Develops New
CRISPR Version that Targets and Edits RNA
10 | FROM THE EDITOR
Emptying the Drawer of the Editorial Mind
11 | OP-ED: Recent FDA Approvals
Demonstrate Promise of Precision Medicine
12 | IN THE CLINIC
16 | DIAGNOSTICS
Ring in the New: Rady Children's
Hospital Introduces NovaSeq for
Newborn Diagnoses
30 | DATA & INFORMATICS
From Form to Function: The GTEx Project Sheds New Light
on the Links Between Gene Expression and Regulation
34 | IN THE LAB
Price Pressure: PAMA 2018 Medicare Rates
for Tests Draw Fire from Laboratories
39 | NEW PRODUCTS
40 | PRECISION MEDICINE
Playing Catch Up: The All of Us Precision Medicine
Study Looks to a New Beta Phase to Prepare for a
Spring 2018 Launch
44 | INDUSTRY EVENTS
Point-of-Care Testing Revs Up
A host of new technologies and tests are allowing
faster diagnosis and improved patient care across a
range of conditions.
March of the Microbes
As researchers begin to better understand the
complexities of the human microbiome, they are
uncovering new paths for targeted treatments.
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