First disease predicting facility being constructed

Construction began for a first-of-its-kind scientific research facility for human cell lineage in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, on Tuesday. The facility is expected to generate a range of innovative scientific and technological achievements in reagents, instruments, software and data.

With a planned construction period of four and a half years and a building area exceeding 50,000 square meters, it is the first national-level large-scale scientific facility in the field of life sciences in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

"The facility aims to predict diseases and screen drugs by decoding the cell lineage," said Sun Fei, associate director of the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.