Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced Thursday the launch of rBio, the first artificial intelligence model trained to reason about cellular biology using virtual simulations rather than requiring expensive laboratory experiments — a breakthrough that could dramatically accelerate biomedical research and drug discovery. The reasoning model, detailed in a research paper published on bioRxiv, dem…