Google X research lab creating pill to detect cancer and heart attacks

Google is designing a technology that uses a wrist-worn sensor and magnetic nanoparticles to detect cancer in its early stages and prevent heart attacks and other diseases.

Known as the “Nanoparticle Platform,” the project was introduced by Andrew Conrad, the head of life sciences at the company’s Google X research lab, on Tuesday morning at a conference in Southern California.

According to Wired, the project is part of Google’s efforts to improve healthcare through new technologies.

The swallowable pill Google is developing would contain nanoparticles that, once inserted into the patient’s bloodstream, would be able to bind to cancerous cells or to a fragment of cancerous DNA.

The nanoparticles could also detect fatty plaque inside blood vessels that is on the verge of breaking free and causing heart attacks or strokes.

The nanoparticles would have a magnetic core that the wrist-worn sensor would use to retrieve them for analysis one or more times a day. By constantly monitoring a patient’s blood, the detection of cancer, impending heart attacks and other diseases could be made long before the appearance of any physical symptoms.

Wired quoted Conrad as saying that nanoparticles have already been used in the past, are safe and would be easily expelled from the body through urine.

Google did not say when the technology will be available in the market.

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[TheFPSTech]

So they can make this but not add annotations in the YT app on peoples phones

[statefour]

it's more practical than the nano-machines.

[Zedek]

So they do this but can not provide a video stream with a working seeking bar...

[Moreththerogue]

Hmmm At the risk of sounding paranoid, Google reads my email and yet wants me to trust them enough to put microscopic machines inside me? Am I the only one that has an issue with this?

[cumstrollsworth]

Didn't google promise hover boards by 2020?

[luketerrance]

Well they have to do something with all that UK tax avoidance money.

[DaddyStarbuck]

Plot twist, the pill is carcinogenic

[WupeViasco]

whats the backround music? whats the song name plz tell me

[hrimages]

that for me it is the beginning of the end not for the nano device or the application, but because this is manage by our society our human, maybe 20 years later is better if we not died by self disaster

[Jembii]

0:16
Why only the blue pill, Google?
What are you not telling us?
Show us the red!
jk

[KennyChu]

Lol I wonder if magnet screws up the process... Or someone could have jammed the signal and causes some sort of hart attack itself...   

[wadewilson]

we have enough people no curing cancer, aids and ebola.

[LOSTTEMPLAR]

They become self-aware, multiply, and we turn into slaves by the machines that are trying to save us. We become grey goo. True story.

[deleted]

any sane, mature, non-brainwashed person would know this does not look so good, and with good intentions. pretty scary infact.