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## [Making the Shift from Technological Innovation to Operational Excellence: Delivering on the Promise Of Next-Generation Sequencing for Personalized Medicine](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/making-the-shift-from-technological-innovation-to-operational-excellence-delivering-on-the-promise-of-next-generation-sequencing-for-personalized-medicine)

 Category: [clinical genomics](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/clinical-genomics), [NGS](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/ngs)

 Posted by [Peter Duncan](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/author/peter-duncan) on Apr 22, 2019 12:00:00 AM

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 As originally seen in The Journal of Precision Medicine March 2019. Targeted therapies and now recently, immunotherapies, have demonstrated great promise towards increasing response rates, as well as duration of response for cancer patients. This is often achieved by understanding biomarkers associated with therapeutic response and then stratifying patients accordingly. 

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## [Keep Calm and Standardize On](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/keep-calm-and-standardize-on)

 Category: [qc management](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/qc-management), [QC Challenges](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/qc-challenges), [QC Management Software](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/qc-management-software), [NGS](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/tag/ngs)

 Posted by [Peter Duncan](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/author/peter-duncan) on Oct 5, 2018 12:00:00 AM

[![](https://blog.seracare.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/keep%20calm.png)](https://blog.seracare.com/ngs/keep-calm-and-standardize-on)

 There is that old adage that says the only thing that is constant is change. This is one of those universal truths we have all come to accept. Heck, even Dunkin' Donuts, widely credited as being the inventor of the word “Donut,” is dropping the word from their brand name. Blasphemy! But that is for another blog... 

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