After Google’s announcement to restructure into Alphabet, Google has launched a Life Sciences company as the first new company under the Alphabet umbrella. “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,”said Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and Alphabet president in a blog post.
The existing public projects that will be rolled into life sciences mentoned in the announcment include:
– Smart contact lenses that can monitor the blood sugar levels of diabetics
– Nanoparticles that can be used to detect and fight cancer
– A baseline study that will create the richest portrait yet of the human body and genome
