Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease

Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools—from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques—they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.

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. They acknowledge that this might sound a crazy, but point to how far medicine and science have come in the last century—with vaccines, statins for heart disease, chemotherapy, and so on—following millennia with little progress.
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Zuckerberg and Chan, who have committed to donating 99 percent of their wealth, have spent the past two years meeting with scientists and other experts to come up with the endeavor. The two stressed that they believe that their goal can be accomplished, if not in their lifetime, then in their child's lifetime. It was Max's birth last November that inspired the billionaire couple to give away nearly all their money to help solve the world's problems.

Если вкратце, Марк Цукерберг и его супруга Присцилла Чан решили потратить почти всё свое состояние на благотворительность. В частности, в ближайшие 10 лет они выделят в общей сложности 3 млрд долларов на проведение фундаментальных научных исследований в области биологии и медицины с целью искоренить болезни человека до конца этого века или как минимум разработать более эффективные способы борьбы с ними. Похоже, Цукерберг решил пойти по стопам Билла Гейтса.

Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease

Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools—from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques—they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.

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. They acknowledge that this might sound a crazy, but point to how far medicine and science have come in the last century—with vaccines, statins for heart disease, chemotherapy, and so on—following millennia with little progress.
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Zuckerberg and Chan, who have committed to donating 99 percent of their wealth, have spent the past two years meeting with scientists and other experts to come up with the endeavor. The two stressed that they believe that their goal can be accomplished, if not in their lifetime, then in their child's lifetime. It was Max's birth last November that inspired the billionaire couple to give away nearly all their money to help solve the world's problems.

Если вкратце, Марк Цукерберг и его супруга Присцилла Чан собираются потратить почти всё свое состояние на благотворительность. В частности, в ближайшие 10 лет они выделят в общей сложности 3 млрд долларов на проведение фундаментальных научных исследований в области биологии и медицины с целью искоренить болезни человека до конца этого века или как минимум разработать более эффективные способы борьбы с ними. Похоже, Цукерберг решил пойти по стопам Билла Гейтса.