DOE and Biohub commit five-year funding to predictive cell research
DOE, NIH and Biohub signed a memorandum on October 7 to build biological data for predictive models. DOE says it is investing more than $500 million over five years. Biohub's separate $500 million, five-year initiative began earlier this year.
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The announcement describes research commitments, not completed predictive models or demonstrated cures. The partners plan data collection, laboratory measurement and computing. Models must predict physical experiments well enough to earn scientists' trust.
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