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In his State of the Union address before both chambers of the US Congress, President Barack Obama called for increased investment in US infrastructure and research and announced the launch of a new Precision Medicine Initiative, aiming to accelerate biomedical discovery. Due to their well-established selectivity and specificity, microRNAs can represent a useful tool, both in diagnosis and therapy, in forging the path towards the achievement of precision medicine. This introductory chapter represents a guide for the Reader in examining the functional roles of microRNAs in the most diverse aspects of clinical practice, which will be explored in this third volume of the microRNA trilogy.
The original version of this chapter was revised. The erratum to this chapter is available at: DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22671-2_22
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Dr. Santulli is supported by the NIH (1K99DK107895).
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Santulli, G. (2015). Exploiting microRNA Specificity and Selectivity: Paving a Sustainable Path Towards Precision Medicine. In: Santulli, G. (eds) microRNA: Medical Evidence. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 888. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22671-2_1
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