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By Conor Hale
NCI will implement President Barack Obama's directive to ramp up the initiative in precision medicine, even if Congress doesn't appropriate specific funds for this purpose, Institute Director Harold Varmus told members of the National Cancer Advisory Board Feb. 12.
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