After the Alphabet restructuring,
Google co-founders are eyeing newer horizons to make their company much
more than a search engine. Last week, I wrote an article telling you
the real reason why Google renamed itself as Alphabet
and we told you about the future dreams of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Now, Alphabet will be the home to Google’s (or, yeah, Alphabet)
moonshots like Glass and Loon. Another big part of Alphabet’s future is
healthcare and sci-fi projects that aim to cure the most dangerous
diseases and defy death.
We’ve already told you in the past about Google X’s cancer treating pills
and smart lenses to monitor blood sugar levels. Chasing all these
ambitious projects with Google as a parent didn’t make much sense-
because, over the years Google has become synonymous with the word
search.
Focusing on healthcare, two Alphabet companies will there looking for
new ways to improve your life. The fist company, Calico, has previously
announced that it’s partering with AbbVie to make new drugs targetting
the diseases related to old age (Alzheimers and Parkinsons) and
extending your age and life. The second life sciences company remains
unnamed and deals with fighting diseases. According to various sources,
even though things are just in the starting phase, but the company has
been hunting top scientific talent for a long time.
This life science company is making Google’s cancer detecting pill
that will inject nanoparticle in your bloodstream to detect the
cancer-causing cells and it’ll send back the information using a smart
wristband.
Google’s smart contact lens is another device that must be mentioned
here. It will be using a smart wireless chip to measure the blood
glucose levels and transmit the data regularly. Google is also
considering the option to add some kind of LED notification light that
will alarm the users about the threshold sugar levels.
The life science company has previously told Bloomberg that they have
planned to work on slowing down the progression of multiple sclerosis.
If you are thinking that disease detection and fighting against it is
Google’s limit in healthcare, you’re wrong. Google wants do more to
prevent aging. According to Wired,
company is working on its “Baseline Project” that will take genetic
information from 10,000 anonymous people to create a ‘baseline’ that
will show us a picture of a healthy human being on a molecular level.