Is $3 Billion Enough to End Disease?

Is $3 Billion Enough to End Disease?
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In 1635, the French philosopher René Descartes surveyed the state of human knowledge about health, writing, "It is true that the science of medicine, as it now exists, contains few things whose utility is very remarkable." But, he predicted, "we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age, if we had sufficiently ample knowledge of their causes, and of all the remedies provided for us by nature." Last Wednesday—381 years later–Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan suggested Descartes' hope could be a reality within this century.

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