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Nature Medicine 12, 259 (1 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm0306-259a;

After criticism, more modest cancer genome project takes shape

Emily Waltz

An expensive federal project to identify the genetic changes that cause cancer is blazing ahead despite loud skepticism from some scientists. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is set to begin taking applications for the project in early March.

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