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[Summer] DAILYWILDCAT.COM Wednesday, July 20, 2016 – Tuesday, July 26, 2016 VOLUME 109 ISSUE 98

UA, Banner recieve $43 million NIH grant The five year grant aims to improve health and treat disease as a part of President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.

BY AMANDA OIEN @amanda_oien

The National Institutes of Health has given the UA Health Sciences and Banner Health over $43 million in the form of a research grant to partake in the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which was proposed by President Barack Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address. The program, called PMI-CP,

is a revolutionary approach to “prevention and treatment based on people’s individual differences in environment, genes and lifestyle,” according to the NIH website. The NIH grant, totaling $43.3 million over five years, aims to improve health and treat disease as a part of Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. With the PMI, doctors and researchers across the U.S. will

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work to bridge the gap between patients and carefully designed medicine. Current medical treatments have not been tailored to a specific patient, but rather a one-size-fits-all approach, according to the NIH website. PMI-CP plans to recruit one million U.S. research participants who will share biological samples, genetic data, diet and lifestyle information that will then be linked to their personal electronic

health records, according to the NIH. The NIH is confident that through a massive database, researchers will be able to develop exact treatments for diseases and conditions. “Over the next five years, we’re going to recruit 150,000 individuals to this Precision Medicine Initiative,” said Dr. Joe

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Gotta catch ‘em all: How to master Pokemon GO PAGE 15

UA JOURNALISM PROFESSOR’S BOOK TO BE MADE INTO MOVIE STARRING GAME OF THRONES STAR EMILIA CLARKE

SCIENCE | PAGE 15 HITTING THE ROAD THIS SUMMER? WHY NOT HEAD TO ARIZONA’S OWN ROCKY WOODLAND, PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK

We’ve compiled the ultimate Pokemon GO tips, tricks and hacks trainers need to know to catch ‘em all in the real world BY ALEX FURRIER @BadJazzMaverick

Who cares if NASA just sent a satellite to orbit Jupiter, or that Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars in less than 10 years? It’s 2016, and the future is now

because Pokémon are real. The fever dream of every inner child arrived last week with Pokémon Go, an augmented reality app in which the power of GPS allows live Pokémon to inhabit our planet. I repeat, this is not a drill—Pokémon are out

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there, and it’s time to go catch ‘em all, in real life. Before you abandon all responsibility for the sake of this game, take a deep breath and immerse yourself in this Pokémon Go Ultimate Trainer’s Guide. This isn’t the traditional

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Gameboy game where any 10 year old child can leave home on a grand adventure catching monsters and battling strangers—this is the big leagues,

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