The burgeoning field of precision medicine relies on the accuracy of diagnostic testing. But who tests the tests?
Tens of thousands of diagnostics developed and processed by clinical laboratories have largely escaped oversight from the Food and Drug Administration. Although the lab that develops the tests must be government-certified, the individual tests need not be — regardless of whether they’re measuring a simple metric like blood sugar or being used to diagnose cancer or genotype a tumor.
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