‘We need new tools’: Chan Zuckerberg biotech research hub opens in Fulton Market, studying inflammation on a cellular level

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Studying causes of inflammation could have implications for cancer, heart disease and autoimmune diseases.

Thursday morning in a gleaming laboratory in Fulton Market, Gov. J.B. Pritzker passed a microscope slide back and forth with Dr. Priscilla Chan. The pair stood out in dark business clothes among a cluster of lab coats, standing wide-eyed through a demonstration of how cells interact in the top few layers of human skin.

It will also include four rooms dedicated to growing synthetic skin, cardiac skin, tumors and neurons for study, operations manager Juhi Naik said. The first CZ Biohub opened in San Francisco in 2016 and focused on cell mapping. Research projects have included OpenCell, a searchable map of more than a thousand proteins found in the cell, as well as atlases of all the cells found in flies, mice, lemurs and humans.

 

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