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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is funding scientists:
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has selected its first cohort of investigators. The nonprofit research institute in San Francisco, California, part of Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan's plan to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases, announced today that 47 faculty at three nearby research universities will get no-strings-attached awards to delve into risky new directions.
Biohub is the first concrete piece of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's foray into science, launched last September with a commitment of $3 billion over 10 years from Zuckerberg and Chan, a pediatrician. The institute brings together the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); UC Berkeley; and Stanford University to focus initially on two projects, a cell atlas and infectious diseases. The launch of Biohub's investigator program means each scientist and engineer chosen will receive an average of up to $300,000 per year for 5 years for life sciences research.
All papers produced are required to be freely published online as preprints. Published papers may also be required to be open access.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 10 2017, @03:14AM
You can treat the symptoms of Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder but you can't cure the underlying disease. To the best of my knowledge there is no cure even proposed.
The treatment for the symptoms doesn't always work well, sometimes it doesn't work at all.
Maybe something with gene therapy will do it.
If would be enough for me if the medicines worked better. I've been doing well for the past year but for five years before that I was all fucked up. And these days I'm getting two side effects - raging unquenchable thirst and tardive dyskinesia.
The TD is not so bad, I make a rhythmic motion of opening and closing my mouth. You might think I'm chewing gum. But it can put you in a wheelchair; the day might come when I have to stop taking my medicine.
The thirst is mostly a problem because I always need to take the piss. I can't sleep through the night, I'm up several times to use the terlet. That makes it hard to get enough sleep.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday February 10 2017, @04:30AM
MDC, and here I thought you were referring to Ethanol_fueled! Don't use the terlet. Go to sleep, and dream of large women.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday February 10 2017, @05:20AM
They did say "or manage." Would the electrodes in the brain thing possibly help? Have you tried transcranial magnetic or electric stimulation?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @10:32AM
About getting up several times for the terlet... I know the problem... not only that I have attained the age where I dribble and make a mess and the damned thing sprays more like a bad sprinker head than anything else.
I suggest re-using those liquid clothes-detergent bottles. They have a wide mouth and a tight sealing lid. Keep one next to your bed so you don't have to wake yourself up thoroughly trying to satiate your nagging waterbag. This is something you can do in the middle of the night... feel the cap off the bottle, get it in, get relief, have all the splatter contained, put the lid back on, and go back to sleep. Empty and rinse tomorrow for tomorrow night's use.
( posting AC for obvious reasons! )
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:58AM
I've considered it since living in my apartment, so I don't have to get out of bed.
I too am of that Certain Age.
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