Google’s ‘ambitious’ quest inside the human body

| | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

Google is on a journey to produce the fullest picture of a healthy human body, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Its new project, Baseline Study, will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more. Then Google will use its massive computing power to locate "biomarkers" in the hope that medical researchers will someday be able to detect disease a lot earlier utilizing this information.

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Google's New Moonshot Project: the Human Body

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