Google planning for cancer cell searches
Google is designing tiny magnetic particles to patrol the human body for signs of cancer and other diseases, according to a presentation by Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJD Live conference.
The nanoparticles are one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell and seek out and attach themselves to cell, proteins or other molecules.
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