Google Life Sciences — spun off when Google recently reinvented itself as Alphabet, a holding company for Google itself and affiliated entities — has generated buzz in the medical community. Its experts try to turn blue-sky ideas into products by cross-pollinating medicine, engineering, and data science.
They’ve already produced a contact lens for diabetics that continuously monitors glucose in tears. Another prototype “paints” nanoparticles with substances that detect cancer or other abnormalities. As the particles flow through the body, a wrist band — think Fitbit’s smarter sibling — peers into blood vessels to read their findings.
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