It was- I mean, look, it is really inspiring to see," Zuckerberg said about the acknowledgment. They also launched a so scientists could study these data.

She expressed gratitude for the "everyday bravery and hard work" of regular people as well as scientists working towards treatments and vaccines, noting that she received emails "constantly" from people who want to contribute to efforts to battle the virus. "Altogether, that has to mean something," she said.Watch CBS News anytime, anywhere with the our 24/7 digital news network. Biohub has sequenced about 1,600 samples from nursing homes, packing plants and prisons from 20 California counties. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan are stepping up to battle the "I'm really proud to share that CZI's gonna be joining Gates and others to put together something they're calling the 'therapeutics accelerator to fight coronavirus," Chan told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King in an exclusive interview. The Cambodian researchers (trained with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) were able to proactively assess what was happening locally by prepping and sequencing the full genome of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in-house (via IDSeq) instead of sending those samples to a lab in another country for processing. The initiative was created in 2015 by Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, who pledged $600 million over 10 years to help advance medical research.The initiative has also committed $13.6 million to Catherine Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. ISTE will be providing a free with resources for educators and staffing a full-time helpline with experts from across the country to provide real-time support to school decision makers – particularly around supporting young students and special student populations. The organization has suggested the rest of its 400 employees at its Redwood City, California, headquarters work from home. An employee at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the charitable organization of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan — has tested positive for coronavirus. Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

"I'm very proud about how our teams around the world have pulled together to support people - getting accurate information, Facebook's promotion of communication and community engagement has been "I appreciate that, that was very nice. A $500,000 portion of the award will support immigrant families and communities in the Bay Area, where CZI is headquartered. When the virus spreads from cell to cell and person to person, it passes on small changes, or mutations, in the viral information. Zuckerberg noted that with the site's notable advertising business, it would feel the hit, though it did not warrant anything as "drastic" as re-shaping the business model. “It’s possible that is either a function of the viral strain or of the genetic makeup of the host, or a combination of the two.

The work of CZI’s team is aimed at leveraging open science, technology, and collaboration to accelerate our shared understanding of COVID-19. It was- I mean, look, it is really inspiring to see," Zuckerberg said about the acknowledgment.

The technique today helps trace where infections began, and perhaps one day it could help shape the way doctors treat COVID-19 patients.A new initiative between California and the San Francisco research institution funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic organization could bring them one step closer.It is one of the largest statewide, coordinated efforts to do genome sequencing for COVID-19, said Dr. Joe DeRisi, co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has 30,000 letters of RNA, genetic material that includes instructions on how to make new copies of the virus. With HIV, for instance, sequencing helped researchers glean that some strains of the virus respond well to certain drugs while other strains are resistant to the same drugs.“Ultimately, we might be able to use this data for things like susceptibility to drugs or a vaccine,” said Dr. Robert Siegel, a Stanford infectious disease expert. Chan acknowledged the "beautiful" ways people were "reaching out and caring for each other" during a time of crisis, while also noting the sad reality of those who "have lost their lives and are putting so much into this." This work will generate some of the first single-cell biology datasets from donors infected by SARS-CoV2 and provide critical insights into how the virus infects humans, which cell types are involved, and how the disease progresses.

, supported in part by CZI grants, has provided the most comprehensive resource to date for exploring cell-type specific expression of SARS-CoV2-linked genes.

"People are finding ways to come together and support each other even when we can't be together in person. For more information, read our tool has enabled researchers in Cambodia to sequence and confirm the country’s first case of COVID-19 in a matter of days — not the weeks it could typically take. As of March 11, 1,438 papers (including 120 preprints) have been added to the — these papers represent different variants of the virus name that researchers use, including COVID-19, 2019-nCoV, COVID 19, COVID19, SARS-CoV-2.