Calico Life Sciences LLC was founded in 2013 as a Google-backed venture with the goal of combating aging and associated disease. Described by Larry Page, co-founder of Google, at the time as a venture targeting “health, well-being, and longevity,” the name of the...
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Google Funds ‘Unprecedented’ Study Analyzing Hispanic RNA Samples on Mexican Border: Pre-and Post COVID-19 Infection
Google’s philanthropy entity called Google.org awarded $500,000 to investigators at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to study how COVID-19 alters gene expression in some people that could potentially be linked to...
Google Grants $8.5m to Organizations to Study COVID-19 Trends, Including use of AI & Analytics
Google’s foundation has awarded $100 million toward addressing COVID-19 challenges announced back in May. The funds support various organizations involving not only monitoring and forecasting disease but also addressing health care equity, targeting at-risk workers...
Google Spinoff Verily Moves into the COVID-19 Antibody Testing Business
Verily, a spinoff from Google, is owned by parent company Alphabet and recently launched a research study focusing on how the immune system interacts with SARS-COV-2. Based on the existing Project Baseline initiative, the Silicone Valley-based group will leverage...
Google Touts Technology Initiatives in Support of War Against COVID-19
Academic medical centers, in America and elsewhere, have undertaken a massive pivot to take on the war against SARS-CoV-2. These multi-faceted centers possess a very important resource: human capital and the know-how to use advanced technology tools and products....
Tripartite Cloud Wars: Migrating Life Sciences Value Chain-based Applications to the Cloud
Google (GOOG) and Accenture have inked a partnership to help life sciences organization data more secure, useful, and accessible. A multi-year deal, the agreement opens up Google cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities in combination with Accenture’s life...
Verily (part of Google Family) Receives FDA 510k Approval for Study Watch with Irregular Pulse Monitor
Google’s investments in life sciences become more interesting by the year. Verily, the life science venture holding under Google’s parent Alphabet (NSDQ: GOOGLE), one year ago received their first 510(k) clearance for ECG for the Verily Study Watch—as described in the...
Google Hires Top Digital Research Cardiologist Specialist in Moves to Ultimately Expand Fitbit Medical Research Competitive Position
A prominent figure in digital healthcare (including medical devices and AI) was approached by Google Health, reporting directly to Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer. Dr. Jacqueline Shreibati leaves AliveCor where she served as Chief Medical Officer to take on an...
Do no Evil: Google Banning Stem Cell Clinic Online Ads in Bid to Protect Consumers
TrialSite News a while back surveyed stem cell clinics across America. Titled ‘Stem Cell Research: Promise and Possible Peril,’ we showcased how quacks are running amok in America and the Caribbean, putting patients' lives in danger not to mention swindling them for...
Google is Reportedly Gathering Health Data on Millions of Americans
Google is gathering detailed health record information from millions of Americans -- and it has not informed patients or doctors, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to WSJ, St. Louis-based Ascension, the second-largest health system in the US,...
A Phone App Developed by Google’s DeepMind can Detect Fatal Kidney Condition in 14 Minutes
An app called Streams, built with Google’s DeepMind, can look for signs of acute kidney injury and identify the condition within 14 minutes. The Problem Kidney injuries kill around 100,000 in the UK alone every year. Fatal kidney diseases, such as AKI, involve sudden...
Google Translate Becomes Powerful Clinical Trial Results Translation Tool
Google’s corporate mission has always been “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and the Silicon Valley company delivers the goods. A Medical College of Wisconsin-led study studied Google Translate and found that the...
Alphabet Verily (Google) Invests in Freenome and Includes On-Campus Lab
Verily, the life science division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, invested in start-up Freenome, which is seeking to detect early-stage cancer while also building a dedicated lab for the start up. Freenome just raised $170 million. Background Freenome utilizes...
Google Sponsors Major Regional Clinical Trials Initiative Called the Baseline Consortium
Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is sponsoring a significant regional clinical trials initiative called the Baseline Consortium to improve the process of clinical trials by emphasizing the Missing Link of the healthcare system The...
Google DeepMind Deep-learning Technology Accurately Detects 53 Kinds of Eye Disease
Marcia Frellick reports in Medscape that Artificial intelligence (AI) is at least as effective as experts, and sometimes more effective, in detecting 53 kinds of sight-threatening retinal diseases, according to a paper published online August 13 in Nature Medicine....