SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.
Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools -- from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques -- they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.