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R&D World: CZI, NVIDIA Expand Virtual Cell Push With Open Models and Benchmarks

Oct 28, 2025 ·

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TIME: Why AI Companies Are Racing To Build a Virtual Human Cell

Oct 15, 2025 ·

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Inside Precision Medicine: Shana Kelley — Instrumented Tissues for Monitoring Human Body i... Inside Precision Medicine: Shana Kelley — Instrumented Tissues for Monitoring Human Body in Real-Time

Sep 24, 2025 ·

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Ground Truths: Shana Kelley — Biosensors To Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real... Ground Truths: Shana Kelley — Biosensors To Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real Time

Sep 15, 2025 ·

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VentureBeat: CZI’s rBio Uses Virtual Cells To Train AI, Bypassing Lab Work

Aug 21, 2025 ·

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Freethink: AI’s Next Frontier — Modeling Life Itself

In Freethink, CZI leaders and collaborators speak to the impact virtual cell models could have on the world of health.

Aug 1, 2025 ·

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Forbes: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Introduces New GREmLN Model for Genetics

Jul 24, 2025 ·

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Core Memory: Priscilla Chan and Her Quest To End Disease

Jul 17, 2025 ·

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BBC: Biggest Human Imaging Study Scans 100,000th Person

Jul 15, 2025 ·

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Inside Precision Medicine: Mogwai Masters — CZI’s GREmLN Is Transforming AI To Think Like... Inside Precision Medicine: Mogwai Masters — CZI’s GREmLN Is Transforming AI To Think Like Biology

Jul 14, 2025 ·

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Drug Discovery and Development: Columbia-CZ Team Develops 10.3M Parameter Model That Outperforms... Drug Discovery and Development: Columbia-CZ Team Develops 10.3M Parameter Model That Outperforms 100M Parameter Rivals

Jul 11, 2025 ·

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GEN: CZI’s AI Model Captures Gene Networks To Address Disease

Jul 10, 2025 ·

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TIME: The Bet on CRISPR To Cure Rare Childhood Diseases

Jul 8, 2025 ·

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Ground Truths: New Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures

Jul 8, 2025 ·

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Nature: Can AI Build a Virtual Cell? Scientists Race To Model Life’s Smallest Unit

Jun 27, 2025 ·

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GEN Highlights CZI’s Virtual Cell Efforts As Industry Competitions Emerge To Accelerate AI Model... GEN Highlights CZI’s Virtual Cell Efforts As Industry Competitions Emerge To Accelerate AI Model Development

As new competitions push the pace of virtual cell model development, GEN spotlights CZI’s contributions, including models like scGenePT and TranscriptFormer.

Jun 26, 2025 · 1 min read

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GEN, STAT Cite CZI Datasets and Models as Advancements Toward AI-Based Virtual Cell Models

STAT and GEN cite CZI’s CELLxGENE, Billion Cells Project and TranscriptFormer model as open resources advancing AI virtual cell research.

Jun 18, 2025 · 2 min read

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R&D World: 10x CTO on Chan Zuckerberg, Arc Institute Ties and Industrializing Single-Cell... R&D World: 10x CTO on Chan Zuckerberg, Arc Institute Ties and Industrializing Single-Cell Biology

Jun 5, 2025 ·

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CZI @ STAT Breakthrough Summit: Virtual Cells Might Be Closer Than We Think — Thanks to AI

At Breakthrough West, Patricia Brennan and Gita Mahmoudabadi discussed TranscriptFormer, CZI’s new AI model trained on 112 million cells from 12 different species.

May 29, 2025 · 2 min read

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