Philanthropist and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has began another initiative that will see him aim at wiping out all diseases on earth. In a renewed effort at helping humanity, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife want to help eradicate all diseases by the end of this century. The couple will commit $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools that will find breakthroughs and answers to diseases plaguing mankind. The goal, which they are unlikely to live to see accomplished, is to ‘cure, prevent or manage all disease’ in the next 80 or so years. Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “Priscilla and I just shared our next major focus for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.Can we help scientists to cure, prevent or manage all diseases within our children’s lifetime? “I’m optimistic we can. “Medicine has only been a modern science for about a century, and we’ve made incredible prog...
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