Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have announced a ten-year, $3bn (£2.3bn) medical research fund, designed to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century".
The couple unveiled the ambitious plan at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), during an event for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic group they launched in December 2015, when they revealed plans to give away 99 per cent of their shares in Facebook.
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