Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are funding a drive to end human disease. Tabitha M. Powledge provides some context: "Their down payment on the vow is $3 billion over the next 10 years. At first bite, that sounds like a lot of money. But, as a number of commenters have pointed out, it’s puny compared with what the U.S. National Institutes of Health spends on biomedical research." Also, why 115 years may be the natural limit for a human lifespan.
October 8, 2016
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