Mark Zuckerberg opens research center to cure disease with technology

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, created a few years ago Iniciativa Chan Zuckerberg using technology in the development of science and medicine. One of the results of this initiative is the opening of a Biohuba research center to find cures for different diseases.

To open this space they invested 250 million dollars and Chicago was the chosen city, they work there with three universities: Northwestern, Chicago and Illinois, each contributing from different scenarios to understand the functioning of human tissues, using small sensors that expand like a large lens.

“If you look at the history of science, most big breakthroughs are preceded by new tools to look at things, not just in biology, but also with telescopes and supercolliders,” he said. Zuckerberg a Forbes.

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The research center is the couple’s commitment to contribute to the development of scientific technology to prevent, cure and treat disease. In San Francisco, USA, they opened the first, and since 2021 they have been announcing the creation of the second space, which will become reality in Chicago.

for this second Biohub The person in charge will be Shana O. Kelley, professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering, who explains that having this space is an excellent alternative for the development of science and technology due to the possibility of having no limits.

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“It’s hard to explain how excited people are here. It’s an opportunity to do science the way we’ve always wanted to, removing boundaries and letting creativity run wild,” he said.

Regarding the work they will do in these centers, he says that “the idea is to take human tissue and put thousands of sensors on board to do a whole new type of measurement”, in this way they will observe how the cells and the tissues communicate and will thus understand “what happens when a tissue changes from normal to inflamed”.

Following the line of what you mentioned Zuckerbergthat having the possibility of seeing the details in depth opens many doors to solve, since according to the data of the research to start this project, more than 50% of deaths are attributed to diseases with some type of inflammation, such as cancer and heart disease.

With the Iniciativa Chan Zuckerberg, the couple set out in 2016 to cure, manage and prevent all diseases by the end of the century. A huge mission, which they know is difficult, but they want to try to leave the best possible legacy.

“Most of the time we think it’s possible, and in general I think it’s good to aim for ambitious things. But to be clear, we don’t think we’re going to get it. The goal is to create tools to accelerate progress in this whole area,” said the CEO of Meta.

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Meta has begun a process of developing tools that use this technology machine learning so that they can be used by people. The company’s intention is to compete with other similar platforms that are already implementing these advancements in their products.

Mark ZuckerbergCEO of the company, said in a post on its official page of Facebook that the next step is to raise the level of experience of the people with whom social networks to seek greater interaction. The official said that the center of this breakthrough will be artificial intelligence technology.

To achieve his goal, the director indicated that currently Meta concentrates on the creation of a group resolutely turned towards the development of generative artificial intelligence (which works like ChatGPT, DALL-E2, among others, who create content based on indications). This will help the company “create creative and expressive tools,” he said.

He also added that in the long term, they hope their efforts will be focused on creating “people with artificial intelligence who can help people in different ways. In this way, it seeks to apply AI technology to other products developed by the company such as WhatsApp, Messenger, instagramamong others who could take advantage of functions for generating text, images and filters.