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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
The Obama administration’s ambitious long-term health study, dubbed the Precision Medicine Initiative, has tapped the Mayo Clinic to build a repository for biological samples collected from the study’s participants. Through the National Institutes of Health, the administration has awarded $142 million over five years to the Rochester, MN-based Mayo Clinic for the so-called “biobank,” which is meant eventually to house more than 35 million blood samples, tissue specimens, and more.
“It’s not meant to be an archive,” said NIH deputy director Kathy Hudson (pictured). “We want it to be actively used” by researchers at Mayo and beyond, she said during remarks at this week’s Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford University.
The U.K. has built its own repository for long-term study, called U.K. Biobank, with half a million volunteers. The Obama administration wants twice that, recruited directly, through community health centers, or by patching in people already taking part in long-t...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: The Obama administration’s ambitious long-term health study, dubbed the Precision Medicine Initiative, has tapped the Mayo Clinic to build a repository for biological samples collected from the study’s participants. Through the National Institutes of Health, the administration has awarded $142 million over five years to the Rochester, MN-based Mayo Clinic for the so-called “biobank,” which is meant eventually to house more than 35 million blood samples, tissue specimens, and more.
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