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Grand Challenge Commentary: Informative diagnostics for personalized medicine

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Some of the most celebrated triumphs of chemical biology are molecularly targeted therapeutics to combat human disease. However, a grand challenge looms as informative diagnostic strategies must be developed to realize the full impact of these promising pharmaceutical agents.

Almost ten years ago, the preliminary sequence of the human genome was released1,2, instantly grabbing the attention of the biomedical research community and signaling the presumptive arrival of the age of personalized medicine. The ensuing decade has seen several notable successes in the deployment of personalized therapies for cancer; however, the widespread translation of genomic insight into individualized disease treatment has yet to be fully realized.

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  1. Ryan C. Bailey is in the Department of Chemistry, Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,

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