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# Google Working On Wearable Tech & Pill To Catch Diseases

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## Video: Google Working On Wearable Tech & Pill To Catch Diseases

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_Published 2014-10-29. Google X — the team behind Google’s self-driving cars and glucose-measuring contact lenses — wants to tackle disease detection and prevention now._


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## Transcript

Google X, you know, the team behind Google's self driving cars and contact lenses that measure glucose levels is at it again. This time, the company's looking to tackle disease detection and prevention by pairing tiny, tiny ingestible particles with a wearable device that can monitor those particles. The concept itself isn't too difficult to understand. Certain diseases have specific biomarkers. In cancer, for example, disease cells might have. Proteins not present in normal human cells. Google's nano particles would be crafted to target these bio markers, the proteins and cancer cells, and communicate the information back to the wearable device.

It's all an attempt by Google to treat diseases long before symptoms begin manifest. To tackle breast cancer before a screening reveals a tumor. In an interview with Backchannel, Google X Project Manager Andrew Conrad said, this addresses a flaw in modern medicine. Some cancers have a 90 % success rate if you diagnose them in early stage one. But most cancers have a five of 10 % survival rate if you diagnose them in stage four. We're diagnosing cancer at the wrong time. Realistically industry experts say the tech is more than five years off. Off. The Wall Street Journal points out Google still has plenty of technical issues to address.

How many nanoparticles need to be ingested? How exactly will they target specific cells? And one major social issue. In a society that's increasingly favoring privacy over almost anything else. How do you convince people to essentially let Google invade their body? Despite it all, a writer for The Verge notes more than 100 Googlers are now working on the project. All working to undermine what Andrew Conrad identifies as their foe, unnecessary death. If you wanna learn more about Google X's attempt at a tricorder, we recommend you check out the entire interview over on back channel.

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