Here's how Google is going to eradicate diseases and crack immortality
After Google's acquisition by the new umbrella Alphabet, the first new company created by the new conglomerate was just announced and it's doing incredible things.
Alphabet president Sergey Brin posted an article on Google+ explaining that what used to be called Google X Lab is going to become a standalone company under Alphabet with Andy Conrad as CEO. The team is composed by a mix of software engineers, oncologists and optics experts. You might wonder what oncologists and optics experts have to do with the digital giant, and the answer is that Alphabet is aiming to branch out into health, bringing concepts from R&D to actual clinical testing to "transform the way we detect, prevent, and manage diseases."
As Brin points out in the post:
3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens -- an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health. While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into -- a life sciences team with the mission to develop new technologies to make healthcare more proactive. The efforts it has spawned include a nanodiagnostics platform, a cardiac and activity monitor, and the Baseline Study.
A number of public projects that the company will continue to carry on range from Calico, which set its incredible goal to cure death, to what seem like more realistic but still unbelievably cool ideas such as smart contact lenses that can monitor the blood sugar levels in diabetics.
Here's a gallery with some other projects by Google:
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