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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017: The Cell Atlas

Biology’s next mega-project will find out what we’re really made of.

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Scottish Brain Sciences opens new Alzheimer’s clinical research center at ONE Biohub

Scottish Brain Sciences (SBS), a leading clinical research organization dedicated to transforming the early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, today announced that it has opened a new state-of-the-art clinical research center at ONE BioHub, Aberdeen. The new clinical research center will enable people living with Alzheimer’s disease, and those…

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Zuckerberg e Chan investem bilhões em pesquisa para combater doenças

No dia 23 de outubro de 2023, Mark Zuckerberg e Priscilla Chan, por meio do seu projeto filantrópico, anunciaram o direcionamento de uma parte significativa de sua riqueza para investigações em biologia e inteligência artificial, em uma tentativa de revolucionar o combate a doenças. Desde a fundação do Biohub em 2016, ambos já destinaram cerca de 4 bilhões de dólares para pesquisas em ciências da vida. Esse investimento visa dobrar nos próximos anos, refletindo uma nova abordagem em relação às suas práticas de filantropia, que recente contratempos e críticas tornaram-se mais visíveis.(...)

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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and UCSF will boost Bay Area COVID-19 tests by 1,000 per day – TechCrunch

Bay Area coronavirus testing is about to get a boost from the private sector.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s philanthropic project the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is collaborating with UCSF and the medical research nonprofit the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to expand COVID-19 testing in Silicon Valley’s backyard.

The collaboration will mean that UCSF, Zuckerberg San Francisco General…

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Bay Area political events: Climate change and health, affordable housing Source: SFChronicle.com

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Zuckerberg, Chan aim to tackle all disease

San Francisco, Sep 22 Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3 billion to fund medical research over the next decade.

At a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, they said their ultimate goal was to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”, BBC reported.

The funds will be distributed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which they created in December 2015.

Tech leaders are increasingly turning their attention to health.

Earlier in the week, Microsoft said it intended to “solve” cancer by using artificial intelligence tools.

Google’s DeepMind unit is working with the NHS to find a way to use computers to more accurately diagnose diseases.

And IBM and MIT announced a tie-up earlier this week to develop AI-based systems that could help clinicians improve the care of elderly and disabled patients.

Even so, the Chan Zuckerberg plan is marked by its ambition.

Mr Zuckerberg said that at present 50 times more money was spent on treating people who are sick than on curing the diseases that would stop them getting ill in the first place, and added that this needed to change.

He outlined three principles that will guide the couple’s investments: To bring scientists and engineers together, to build tools and technology that advance research and to grow the movement to fund more science around the world

Chan added that they had already committed $600 million to creating a new research centre called the Biohub, which will bring together engineers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists and other innovators.

The Biohub will initially work on two projects.

The first is the Cell Atlas, a “map” that describes the different types of cells that control the body’s major organs.

The second is the Infectious Disease Initiative, which will try to develop new tests and vaccines to tackle HIV, Ebola, Zika and other new diseases.

Zuckerberg predicted that by 2100 the average life expectancy would be beyond 100 years.

But he cautioned that it would take years before the couple’s fund led to the creation of new medical treatments and further time before they could be applied to patients.