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Barack Obama: Imagine a new treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched.

On the recordJune 1, 2010
Imagine a new treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

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