Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Pledges $3 Billion to Curing and Managing Disease
Investments will include a bioscience research center, and plans for a chip to diagnose diseases, continuous blood stream monitoring and a map of cell types in body.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Wednesday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime."
Reuters | Stephen Lam
Investments will include a bioscience research center, and plans for a chip to diagnose diseases, continuous blood stream monitoring and a map of cell types in body.
(Reporting by Deborah M. Todd; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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