2017-10-17

Menlo Park, CA, USA

今天，Chan Zuckerberg Initiative宣布我们正在资助38个科学项目，以实现治愈我们的孩子们一生中所有疾病的目标。

他们都是“人类细胞图谱”计划的一部分，以绘制人体内每种类型的细胞。你可以把它比作元素周期表，但是内容是我们身体中的数千个细胞类型。或者你可以把它想象成人类基因组计划那样，但是规模更大，因为我们大约有37万亿个细胞。一旦完成，它将帮助我们了解我们的细胞可以进入的所有状态，以及如何将细胞从一个状态转化到另一个状态。这将有助于各地的科学家在治愈疾病方面取得更快的进展。

绘制所有这些细胞需要新技术，这些新项目正在为科学家的发展提供资金。

治疗，预防和治疗所有疾病是一个巨大的挑战，但重点是改善我们孩子的医疗保健是正确的长期目标。我期待着这些项目的进展。

Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is announcing 38 science projects we're funding towards our goal of curing all disease in our children's lifetime.

They're all part of a larger effort called the Human Cell Atlas to map out every type of cell in the human body. You can think of this like the periodic table of elements, but for the thousands of cell types in our bodies. Or you can think of it like the Human Genome Project, except on a much larger scale since we're each made up of about 37 trillion cells. Once complete, it will help us understand all the states our cells can be in, and how to move cells from one state to another. That will help scientists everywhere make faster progress towards curing diseases.

Mapping all these cells requires new technology, which is what these new projects are funding scientists to develop.

Curing, preventing and managing all diseases is a huge challenge, but it's the right long term goal to focus on to improve healthcare for our children. I'm looking forward to following the progress of these projects.