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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pledge Billions To Fight All Disease

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pledge Billions To Fight All Disease

Speaking through tears at a San Francisco event to announce the initiative, Chan said she hoped to spare parents the pain she had seen while delivering difficult news as a pediatrician.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.""In those moments and in many others we're at the limit of what we understand about the human body and disease, the science behind medicine, the limit of our ability to alleviate suffering.We want to push back that boundary," she said.The event was attended by business and political luminaries including former Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.


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Jackson Lab to Share $25 Million Award to Fight Alzheimer's Disease

Jackson Lab to Share $25 Million Award to Fight Alzheimer's Disease

The National Institute on Aging is awarding $25 million to the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor and Indiana University to support a new effort to combat Alzheimer's disease.Jackson Laboratory Associate Professor Gareth Howell says the Alzheimer's Disease Precision Models Center will aim to create new mouse models for testing of drugs to fight the disease.He says the funds will let them efficiently test, in mice, many potential genetic variants that have been identified in humans."To identify combinations of gene changes that will hopefully lead to an Alzheimer's disease in mice that much, much more closely resembles what we see in humans," he says.