As a fledgling researcher in U.S., Zhang Li was struck by the efficiency of extracting human tissue in the morning and mining it for data the same afternoon.
Such a streamlined process had been missing from his years of training as a bio data scientist in China. Inspired, he returned home to Beijing to join the Chinese Institute for Brain Research and launch a national database that will collect blood and DNA samples from 33,000 children to help identify patterns of brain disease and their risk factors.
¡°Biomedical data is extremely valuable and is fundamental for us to find solutions to diseases and to delay aging,¡± said Zhang, surrounded by robotic arms carefully organizing blood samples.
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