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Personalized Medicine Is Finally Here

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These are today's best ideas

1. Personalized medicine — in the form of tailor-made vaccines that attack skin cancer — is finally here.

By the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

2. PBS is filling the local news coverage void. Here’s how.

By Grant Rindner in Vox

3. One power plant has an energy storage secret that could make renewables work even better.

By Molly A. Seltzer in Smithsonian

4. The tight labor market means employers are giving ex-felons and people with disabilities jobs.

By Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times

5. This is how Louisville is using GPS and crowdsourcing to control asthma.

By Laura Bliss in CityLab

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C.

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