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Molecular Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine In the hunt for pathogenic perps, diagnostic detectives may review the omics equivalent of security tapes (RNA-Seq) or composite sketches (multigene arrays). COULD RNA SEQUENCING BECOME THE WORKHORSE OF PRECISION MEDICINE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Diagnosticians look forward to harnessing RNA-Seq's ability to plow through the transcriptome's ups and downs. CLINICAL IMAGING GOES MOBILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 New screening and diagnostic tools that target cancer, kidney disease, and influenza are showing promise in significantly improving the health of the underserved. COLORECTAL CANCER: ARE GENETIC TESTS CLINICALLY USEFUL? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Improving the predictability of gene expression profiling assays. Regular Features SNAPSHOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Prenatal Testing Upgraded with Sequencing, Microarrays, and Mass Spec Technologies are still emerging for various applications within clinical diagnostics, but prenatal testing is already an area of opportunity. CASE STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Validating NGS-Based Genetic Tests Software for auto-analysis of internal benchmarking controls. NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NEW PRODUCTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Cover: Jedgcomb / Deposit Photos Above: Trans961 / Deposit Photos; © adrenalinapura / Fotolia www.clinicalomics.com MEETING ROUNDUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 March 2015 Clinical OMICs 3 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXBPPWZv--Ne4NfAUHcc8hg https://twitter.com/ClinicalOMICs http://www.clinicalomics.com

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