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Reading cancer's blueprint

Coinciding with last month's annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, at least one business launched with a plan to use genetic information from patient tumors to help guide treatment. Michael Eisenstein investigates.

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Eisenstein, M. Reading cancer's blueprint. Nat Biotechnol 30, 581–584 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2292

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