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News Oct 16, 2018

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announce First-of-Its-Kind “IDSeq” Platform and Service to Enable Real-Time Global Disease Surveillance and Prevention

New open-source, cloud-based tool rapidly interprets terabytes of data to detect disease-causing pathogens In an ongoing pilot project and partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IDseq is helping to identify mystery...

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News Sep 26, 2018

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Awards $13.7 Million to Fund New Intercampus Collaborative Research Programs to Advance Human Health

New funding from CZ Biohub fosters further scientific research collaboration between Stanford; University of California, Berkeley; and University of California, San Francisco CZ Biohub Microbiome Initiative and Intercampus Research Awards...

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News Sep 17, 2018

Law Firm Leader Maureen Sheehy Joins CZ Biohub as General Counsel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO — Sept. 17, 2018 — The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), a nonprofit medical research organization, has hired prominent litigation attorney and law firm leader Maureen Sheehy as general counsel....

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Blog Jan 21, 2025

A simple model for an intricate, ever-evolving structure

Scientists use math and physics to address the mystery of just how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle essential to life at the cellular level, continually re-arranges itself.

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News Jan 9, 2025

Scientists Create Comprehensive Map of Protein Locations within Human Cells

New method precisely defines the locations of proteins within cells, and brings new insights into how cells respond to infections and other changing circumstances.

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News Dec 18, 2024

Joe DeRisi Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by Stanford Medicine

CZ Biohub San Francisco president recognized for exceptional career contributions

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Blog Dec 12, 2024

AI powers a better way to diagnose malaria

CZ Biohub San Francisco’s Remoscope shows promise in clinical study

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Blog Nov 4, 2024

Family loss spurs quest for knowledge

For CZ Biohub San Francisco research associate Rodrigo Baltazar-Nuñez, science is personal

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News Oct 31, 2024

New Partnerships to Provide Travel Grants, Coursework in Genomic Approaches to Infectious Disease For Underrepresented Aspiring Physicians

CZ Biohub San Francisco partners with The 15 White Coats

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Chemical & Engineering News Oct 24, 2024

Can researchers use AI to take microscopy to the next level?

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Live Science Oct 24, 2024

Scientists launch amazing ‘atlas’ of embryos, showing how cells move and develop through time

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Blog Oct 24, 2024

Everything everywhere all at once: ‘Zebrahub’ tracks development like never before

A ‘Google Earth’ of embryology, CZ Biohub San Francisco's zebrafish cell atlas brings a new vision to developmental biology

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Media Gallery Sep 6, 2024

Research Rundown: The Fishpicker

To alleviate the drudgery of sorting and picking transgenic zebrafish, CZ Biohub SF scientists and engineers developed this tool, thus accelerating the pace of research!

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NPR Aug 8, 2024

Researchers decipher MIS-C, the scary illness that followed COVID in some kids

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The New York Times Aug 7, 2024

What Causes Dangerous Inflammation in Children With Covid?

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News Aug 7, 2024

Scientists Get to the Bottom of COVID’s Worst Pediatric Complication

Study reveals a mechanism behind multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)

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Blog Jun 11, 2024

At the intersection of machine learning and life science

Yasin Şenbabaoğlu, CZ Biohub SF’s new Director of Computational Biology, is working to reveal hidden patterns in health and disease

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News Jun 10, 2024

With New Omega Tool, Scientists Can Rapidly Analyze Complex Biological Images through AI-Powered ‘Conversations’

By lowering technical barriers, Omega democratizes image analysis

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News May 28, 2024

Lung Microbiomes Predict Mortality in Children Following Bone Marrow Transplant

Comprehensive mapping of pathogen populations points way to precision treatments to improve outcomes

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Blog May 1, 2024

Blazing new trails

A rock-climbing scientist brings his exploratory spirit to science and medicine

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Journal of Cell Science Apr 8, 2024

An interview with Sandra Schmid – Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

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Blog Apr 4, 2024

A special visit with a nonagenarian expert in pathogenic amoebae

Brain-eating amoeba brings together researchers from CZ Biohub SF, UCSF, and the California Department of Public Health

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Blog Mar 22, 2024

Riddle of the sphinx

Probing the sphinx tile to explore geometry and chirality in life

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Blog Mar 19, 2024

Mind-blowing science: ‘Star Wars-style’ holograms to communicate with the brain

About 20 years ago, neuroscientists, recording from electrodes implanted in the medial temporal lobe, identified human brain cells that respond only to photos of Jennifer Aniston.

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Blog Mar 8, 2024

Obsessed with the nucleus

CZ Biohub San Francisco Investigator Hawa Racine Thiam’s new Stanford lab applies physics to the study of cells and their nuclei

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News Nov 1, 2023

Long Presumed to Have No Heads at All, Sea Stars May Be Nothing But

Collaboration led by CZ Biohub SF Investigators unveils a new understanding of the sea star body plan

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Blog Oct 30, 2023

Unraveling the mystery of brain infections

In the last couple decades, Malaysia has emerged as a global hotspot for neuroinfections such as encephalitis. Now a team from Universiti Malaya is collaborating with CZ Biohub SF to use metagenomics next-generation sequencing to help to...

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Blog Oct 23, 2023

Diversity in academic hiring: a success story

CZ Biohub SF-backed NextGen initiative succeeds in diversifying faculty hiring in biological and biomedical sciences at major Bay Area universities

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Media Gallery Oct 13, 2023

From flocking birds to organ formation: The physics of self-organization in biology

Did you know that zebrafish sense motion in the water using an organ very similar to the human cochlea? It’s called the lateral line and scientist Adrian Jacobo says studying it could help us restore function to human organs that have...

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Science Friday Oct 11, 2023

Meet The Doctor Who Solves Medical Mysteries

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Media Gallery Oct 11, 2023

Unveiling the invisible: A stunning new view of the cell

The San Francisco Biohub’s Computational Microscopy Platform, led by Shalin Mehta, has deployed a recently developed technology that lets standard microscopes acquire stunning high-resolution 3D images of cells without the need for...

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Mission Local Oct 6, 2023

San Francisco scientists use AI to help fight malaria

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Blog Aug 10, 2023

Bolivian biologists building a better future for science and health

Three generations of scientists visit CZ Biohub SF to learn metagenomic sequencing techniques and analysis

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Blog Jul 26, 2023

Seeing the big picture

In an extraordinarily effective collaboration, intercampus team creates highly detailed images of one the world’s most prevalent parasites

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Blog Jul 17, 2023

Arming public health practitioners with a disease-tracking toolkit

CZ Biohub San Francisco’s genomic epidemiology training empowered local health officials to respond to COVID and more

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Nature Jun 6, 2023

Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link

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Blog May 31, 2023

Learning to ‘speak amino acid’: How language models can change our approach to medicine

Biohub-affiliated researchers are using the technology behind AI chatbots to unlock codes in human biology.

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Media Gallery May 12, 2023

Physics of Life Symposium 2023

View the playlist from the Physics of Life Symposium.

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News Apr 5, 2023

Cracking the Puzzle of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Children

CZ Biohub SF researchers and colleagues leverage genomics and machine learning to better diagnose LRTI, a major killer of children worldwide

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News Mar 16, 2023

An Age-Old Battle: Scientists Uncover What Makes Malaria Such a Wily Foe

A new study by researchers at CZ Biohub SF and UCSF points the way to a better vaccine design

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The Economist Mar 8, 2023

A cartography of human histology is in the making

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News Mar 7, 2023

CZ Biohub San Francisco Announces New Cohort of Physician-Scientist Fellows

Program provides a critical entry point for medical doctors interested in scientific research

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Mission Local Mar 6, 2023

Uncommon test solved a Mission medical mystery

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Undark Feb 22, 2023

How An Early Warning Radar Could Prevent Future Pandemics

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Wall Street Journal Feb 13, 2023

Even a Brain-Eating Amoeba Can’t Hide From This Cutting-Edge DNA Tech

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Science Feb 13, 2023

Repurposed drug battles ‘brain-eating’ amoeba

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Media Gallery Feb 9, 2023

OpenCell

OpenCell is a first-of-its-kind open-source website that’s mapping cells one protein at a time and paving a new way to visualize cellular architecture.

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Media Gallery Feb 9, 2023

5th Anniversary: Priscilla & Mark Reflect on CZ Biohub

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg share their thoughts on five years of scientific progress at CZ Biohub.

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Media Gallery Feb 9, 2023

5th Anniversary: Highlights of the Biohub’s First Five Years

How CZ Biohub deepened our understanding of disease, developed new technologies and therapies, and more, in our first five years.

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Media Gallery Feb 9, 2023

A Model for the Nation: Building a COVID-19 Testing Lab in Only Eight Days

A video from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Media Gallery Feb 9, 2023

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg, Dr. Priscilla Chan, and Joe Dirisi, Ph.D

A video from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Mission Local Jan 13, 2023

Test for Covid-19, RSV, and flu all at once at 24th and Capp

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Blog Dec 22, 2022

For Biohub’s newest research associate, a different kind of gap year

Music, dance, cell culture – Leila Njoya does it all.

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Blog Dec 20, 2022

Seeing malaria in a new light

CZ Biohub’s Bioengineering team sends custom microscopes to Uganda to test out a new approach to diagnosing malaria

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Blog Dec 13, 2022

Bringing physics to life: Upcoming Biohub conference will merge physics and biology

Building on CZ Biohub’s mission of bringing together leading researchers in the Bay Area, symposium will foster collaboration between fields

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Blog Nov 14, 2022

Creator of Biohub’s ‘cytoself’ protein-localization method named 2022 STAT Wunderkind

Kobayashi cited as among 'the brightest young minds' in research

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Blog Nov 4, 2022

Biohub Investigators receive NIH support for ‘exceptionally creative, highly innovative’ ideas

Six Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators are among the 2022 grantees of the High-Risk, High-Reward Program

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News Oct 26, 2022

New Partnership Between Gladstone Institutes and CZ Biohub

The two San Francisco organizations signed an affiliation agreement to increase research collaboration

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News Oct 25, 2022

Machine Learning Enables ‘Almost Perfect’ Diagnosis of an Elusive Global Killer

Sepsis diagnostic tool combines genomic sequencing with analysis of patients’ immune response for remarkable accuracy

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Blog Oct 12, 2022

Building a global network of disease detectives

‘CZ ID’ platform is helping researchers around the world identify new pathogens

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Blog Sep 26, 2022

Science as a team sport

New Group Leader brings a people-first approach to research

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Blog Sep 19, 2022

An ocean of possibilities

CZ Biohub works with Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station to study sea creatures at the molecular and genomic level

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Blog Sep 14, 2022

Calling all LEGO builders! Put your skills to use assembling a light-sheet microscope

CZ Biohub’s game-changing microscope seeks to inspire an international community of builders

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Blog Sep 6, 2022

‘Collaboration is powerful’: a conversation with Biohub scientist Carolina Arias

It seems that Carolina Arias was destined to be a virologist. As a little girl growing up in Bogotá, she often accompanied her mother, a bacteriologist, to her clinical lab and watched her analyze samples from patients to figure out what...

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Blog Sep 1, 2022

Biohub scientist wins ‘Innovation in Research’ award for distinguished contributions to cell biology

American Society for Cell Biology honors Group Leader Manuel Leonetti for OpenCell project

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Blog Aug 24, 2022

From bedside to bench: Teaching doctors to be scientists too

CZ Biohub’s Physician-Scientist Fellowship helps bridge the gap between the clinic and the research lab

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Blog Aug 19, 2022

Growing old: Does cell size trigger cellular aging?

New work by CZ Biohub and Stanford scientists suggests that cells become senescent when they grow too large

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Blog Aug 2, 2022

What New Cell Biology Can AI Reveal Just by Looking at Images? A Lot!

Humans are good at looking at images and finding patterns or making comparisons. Look at a collection of dog photos, for example, and you can sort them by color, by ear size, by face shape, and so on. But could you compare them...

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News Aug 2, 2022

What New Cell Biology Can AI Reveal Just by Looking at Images? A Lot!

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub scientists develop a deep-learning method that reveals rich biological information on proteins and cell architecture

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News Jul 11, 2022

Pharma Leader Joins CZ Biohub as Chief Operating Officer

SAN FRANCISCO (July 11, 2022) – The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub) has named Mandana Asgharnejad as its new chief operating officer (COO), effective July 13, 2022. Mandana (who uses her first name professionally) joins CZ Biohub from...

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Blog Jul 8, 2022

Keir Balla doesn’t have all the answers, and that’s exactly how he likes it

New Group Leader brings an exploratory spirit to the Biohub

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Blog Jun 30, 2022

Does a warming Earth mean more sickness?

How climate change is increasing the risk of infectious disease

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News May 12, 2022

‘Tabula Sapiens’ Multi-Organ Cell Atlas Already Yielding Surprises for Biologists

Massive project reveals gene-expression signatures in nearly half a million human cells, from 24 tissues and organs

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News May 2, 2022

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Names Chief Legal Officer

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has named Melinda Griffith as its new chief legal officer (CLO)

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Blog Apr 20, 2022

Mapping the fly

CZ Biohub joins international effort to build the first cell atlas for a mainstay of biology

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Blog Apr 7, 2022

Old mouse, new tech

The Tabula Muris Consortium probes the mysteries of ‘young blood’ at the single-cell level

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News Mar 21, 2022

CZ Biohub-built ‘DaXi’ microscope advances light-sheet imaging

New tool can produce colorful high-resolution videos of developing organisms that are ‘marvelous to watch’

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Blog Mar 10, 2022

From parts list to blueprint: OpenCell lights the way

Scientists have made great strides in understanding the complexity of the cell in the nearly 360 years since English polymath Robert Hooke discovered this smallest unit of life. The anatomy of the cell and functions of its various internal...

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Blog Mar 7, 2022

Biohub–Stanford research offers a new window on celiac disease

For most of us, cutting out one or two unhealthy food items from our diet may be an efficient way to manage health, but the estimated 2 million people in the U.S. who live with celiac disease must permanently eliminate all foods containing...

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News Feb 28, 2022

Amy Herr named Chief Technology Officer for Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network

Bioengineer will help lead Network’s efforts to observe, measure, and analyze human biology in action

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Blog Feb 17, 2022

CZ Biohub welcomes new university-nominated Investigators

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a stellar new group of Biohub Investigators who have been selected through nominations by our three partner universities—Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley. All 10 of...

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Blog Feb 8, 2022

In the blood: How fatherhood shaped one scientist’s path

Fatherhood has had a major impact on Steve Quake’s scientific career. Years ago, when Quake and his wife were expecting their first child, a prenatal exam quickly took a startling turn. The doctor recommended amniocentesis to test the...

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Science Direct Feb 3, 2022

A decade of molecular cell atlases

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Blog Jan 28, 2022

Who’s feeding the fish? The robot!

Biohub-built ‘ZAF’ automates zebrafish care in the lab

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The New York Times Jan 13, 2022

A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.

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News Jan 11, 2022

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub announces $86 million in new funding to Investigators at Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley for visionary early-stage research

Second cohort of CZ Biohub Investigators includes awardees from a broad range of disciplines, with fresh approaches to biological and medical problems

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Blog Dec 7, 2021

Co-presidents’ perspective: Five years in, a new beginning

Biohub’s success inspires CZI to extend and expand support through 2031, replicate our model in new CZ Biohub Network

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Nature Dec 6, 2021

Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data

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Blog Oct 7, 2021

How enzymes weather mutations

‘Lab-on-a-chip’ platform enables a holistic approach to understanding how enzymes’ activity is optimized

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UC Davis Oct 4, 2021

Viral loads similar between vaccinated and unvaccinated people

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Blog Sep 29, 2021

Widening the path

Transformation of CZ Biohub’s summer internships aims to build more diverse teams, foster an inclusive environment in STEM careers

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Blog Sep 24, 2021

The viruses that buzz around us

Sequencing all the RNA within individual mosquitoes can identify the potentially harmful viruses and emerging pathogens these insect vectors carry and transmit, as well as their animal reservoirs

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Trends in Genetics Aug 27, 2021

The cell as a bag of RNA

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Blog Aug 24, 2021

Getting the stains out

CZ Biohub scientists are building an automated imaging system for low-resource settings to reliably detect malaria in blood samples

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ABC7 San Francisco Aug 14, 2021

ABC7 team tries out at-home COVID-19 antigen tests

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Blog Aug 3, 2021

Wild adaptations

Like Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen, cholera bacteria and their viral nemeses run a never-ending race just to keep up with each other

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60 Minutes Aug 1, 2021

Doctors, scientists who warned officials about oncoming pandemic focus of new Michael Lewis book

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ABC 7 San Francisco Jul 28, 2021

Why did the CDC update its mask guidance? Some breakthrough cases may be infectious, data shows

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Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 21, 2021

More variants are coming, and the U.S. isn’t ready to track them

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Blog Jul 20, 2021

Science and Public Health in the Post-Pandemic Age

Carl Zimmer of the New York Times and CZ Biohub Co-President Joe DeRisi discussed the impact of COVID-19 on science and public health

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Blog Jul 1, 2021

From accelerating particles to advancing public health

An engineering physicist reflects on his role in CZ Biohub’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Blog Jun 24, 2021

‘Cool’ collaboration cracks a SARS-CoV-2 protein structure

Unique study combines cryoEM, AI to forge atomic-level model of Nsp2

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Blog Jun 24, 2021

Location, location, location

The organization of cells into discrete compartments such as cilia and endosomes allows for localized decision-making.

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Blog Jun 24, 2021

Working remotely, Stanford team devises a much-needed medical device

A virtual collaboration overcame supply-chain constraints to quickly develop a versatile, low-cost ventilator for COVID-19 patients.

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The New York Times Magazine Jun 6, 2021

The Disease Detective

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Medimaging.net May 28, 2021

New Approach Combining Ultrasound Imaging and AI Doubles Accuracy at Detecting Fetal Heart Flaws in the Womb

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STAT May 21, 2021

From two unusual organ donations, scientists garner a unique trove of single-cell genetic data

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The Sunday Times May 2, 2021

Meet Joe DeRisi, the virus hunter who foresaw the Covid pandemic

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NBC Bay Area Apr 15, 2021

Mission Critical: Priscilla Chan and the Fight Against COVID-19 in San Francisco’s Latino Community

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UC Berkeley Apr 14, 2021

Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body

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Nature Mar 31, 2021

Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing

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The New York Times Feb 23, 2021

Studies Examine Variant Surging in California, and the News Isn’t Good

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UCSF Magazine Jan 25, 2021

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

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UCSF Jan 11, 2021

Brain Cells Most Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease Identified by Scientists

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News Sep 15, 2020

CZ Biohub Announces Inaugural Cohort for Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program and Call for Applications for the Next Competition

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has selected eleven early-career physicians at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, to pursue their interests in biomedical research through the newly launched CZ Biohub...

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Nature Biotechnology Sep 11, 2020

The making of the Biohub

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News Aug 11, 2020

San Francisco Was Uniquely Prepared for Covid-19

To live in San Francisco for the past 20 years has been to live with outrage that a society so innovative and compassionate can so reliably fail to meet even the most basic challenges of public life. This city never stopped being...

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Bloomberg Opinion Jun 22, 2020

The New Weapon in the Covid-19 War

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News May 19, 2020

UCSF, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CZ Biohub, and the State of California Partner to Expand and Utilize Clinical Testing Capacity for COVID-19

UCSF to expand COVID-19 clinical laboratory facilities with the collaboration of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

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Bloomberg Opinion May 8, 2020

Armed With Swabs, Covid Hunters Stalk Their Prey

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Bloomberg Opinion Apr 17, 2020

The COVID Test Lab That Could Save America

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News Aug 6, 2019

CZ Biohub Launches Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program To Promote Medical Research and Discovery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO — The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a nonprofit medical research organization, has launched the CZ Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program designed to train the next generation of physician-scientists...

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News May 6, 2019

CZ Biohub Hires Global Human Resources Expert Sonya Zilka

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO — May 6, 2019 — The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), an innovative nonprofit medical research organization, has hired renowned health-tech veteran Sonya Zilka as vice president of human resources....

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News Oct 16, 2018

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announce First-of-Its-Kind “IDSeq” Platform and Service to Enable Real-Time Global Disease Surveillance and Prevention

San Francisco

News Sep 26, 2018

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Awards $13.7 Million to Fund New Intercampus Collaborative Research Programs to Advance Human Health

San Francisco

News Sep 17, 2018

Law Firm Leader Maureen Sheehy Joins CZ Biohub as General Counsel

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