#333: Breakthrough Prize to Promote Advancement in Life Sciences

Listen to this six minute segment to learn about this new prize, funded by tech notables like Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Art Levinson. This level of private funding is hoped to provide enough resources to cure terminal and chronic diseases and to extend human life. Zuckerberg has stated that part of the hope with this funding initiative is to attract the best and brightest mines into life science research.