{"id":239125,"date":"2026-05-04T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/zuckerberg-trying-to-simulate-human-biology-at-the-cellular-level\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:30:08","slug":"zuckerberg-trying-to-simulate-human-biology-at-the-cellular-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/zuckerberg-trying-to-simulate-human-biology-at-the-cellular-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai\">Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 19:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"futurism.com\">futurism.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"newsletter-cta-title\"> <\/h2>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Sign up to see the future, today<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Can\u2019t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">Mark Zuckerberg is following a path paved by fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: laundering his untold billions through a health research prestige project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Called the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub \u2014 his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, is also involved \u2014 the foundation\u2019s stated long-term mission is to \u201ccure and prevent all disease through AI-powered biology, frontier research, and state-of-the-art technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">True to those enormous goals, the Biohub recently announced a $500 million investment into AI models of human cells, specifically, in order to \u201caccelerate the cure and prevention of all diseases,\u201d Euronews reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The half a billion dollars are said to go toward a five-year plan to create predictive models of human cells. Once those are built, they will supposedly help medical researchers and biologists understand how cells interact at the level of an entire organism. In theory, this would unlock incredible advancements in bioscience \u2014 perhaps even making the deadly diseases plaguing humanity a thing of the past, in the project\u2019s outsize wording.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">In brass tacks, $400 million of the funding will go to Biohub\u2019s own AI development, while the rest will go to miscellaneous third-party researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\u201cTo build artificial intelligence that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology and accelerate scientific research, we need orders of magnitude more data than exists today,\u201d Biohub\u2019s head of science Alex Rives said in an announcement. \u201cWe need new technologies to observe the cell, from the molecular to the tissue level, and in the context of health and disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The new campaign comes as Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta paid the lowest federal income tax rate on record, just a little over 3.5 percent of its total revenue in 2025, according to the Institute on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai Publish Date: 2026-05-04 19:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/zuckerberg-biohealth-ai.jpg?quality=85&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239127,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239125\/revisions\/239127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}