{"id":32573,"date":"2016-12-12T03:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-all-the-cells-in-your-body"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:13:38","slug":"zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-all-the-cells-in-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-all-the-cells-in-your-body","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg is Spending Millions To Map All the Cells in Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-all-the-cells-in-your-body.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg recently opened his wallet in order to create BioHub, a $600 million center that will focus on working to create a human cell directory.<\/li>\n<li>By mapping the trillions of cells in the human body, experts would be able to develop new drugs and vaccines to combat \u2014 and potentially end \u2014 disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/soon-we-could-have-a-detailed-map-of-every-cell-in-the-human-body\/\">we reported<\/a> on the Human Cell Atlas, a project that plans to provide a detailed reference map of the human body\u2019s trillions of cells. Yes, trillions. Once completed, the project could revolutionize healthcare by giving doctors and researchers a better way to predict, diagnose, and treat diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Initiatives like this need funding \u2013 so Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg opened his wallet and founded BioHub, a $600 million center that will focus on helping create a human cell directory. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to give away $3 billion over 10 years <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/zuckerberg-launched-a-3-billion-plan-to-cure-all-disease\/\">to fight disease<\/a>, and BioHub is the couple\u2019s first initiative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-all-the-cells-in-your-body\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/zuckerberg-is-spending-millions-to-map-...your-body\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg recently opened his wallet in order to create BioHub, a $600 million center that will focus on working to create a human cell directory. By mapping the trillions of cells in the human body, experts would be able to develop new drugs and vaccines to combat \u2014 and potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49483,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions\/49483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}