Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters . The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. It comes as part of a $1.8 billion "Virtual Biology" initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, and answer biological questions digitally."
Founded in 2016 , Biohub aims to prevent and cure diseases through the creation of a "high-accuracy predictive mode …
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