Google's Newest Search: Cancer Cells; Google X Team Hopes to Develop Nanoparticles to Provide Early Detection of Cancer, Other Diseases

"Every test you ever go to the doctor for will be done through this system," said Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, who disclosed the project on Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD Live conference. Google is employing a similar idea to u...

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Published inThe Wall Street journal. Eastern edition
Main Authors Barr, Alistair, Winslow, Ron
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y Dow Jones & Company Inc 28.10.2014
Subjects
Blood
Cancer
Life sciences
Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology
Wearable computers
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Summary:"Every test you ever go to the doctor for will be done through this system," said Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, who disclosed the project on Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD Live conference. Google is employing a similar idea to use nanoparticles inside the body, not to deliver drugs, but for continuous testing and monitoring, said Robert Langer, a nano-medicine expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who co-founded T2 and Bind.
ISSN:2574-9579