As an innovative effort to detect cancer cells in human body, Google is trying to make a complete system consisting of human like skin; a pill consists of tiny magnetic nanoparticles and finally a wrist band having the capacity to monitor it.
Andrew Conard (Head of Google life sciences) | Source – Wall Street Journal
Entitled as the “Nanoparticle Platform Project”, this is one of the major steps by Google life sciences through which they aimed to detect cancer cells, sodium or any other delicate sign for a heart attack. Andrew Conard in one of his interview with the Atlantic on Tuesday morning revealed a brief summary of the project in Southern California.
What Nanoparticle Platform Really Is?
Google Life Sciences team with more than 100 doctors and scientists are trying to design a complete system to detect signs of cancer cells in our body. The process will start from taking a pill which will literally deliver tiny magnetic nanoparticles into our bloodstream.
The particle has the ability to tour the complete body to search and bind with cancer cells through a unique marker. Again, with the help of a wearable device, you can say a wrist band which can monitor and count the particles. To make this process successful, Google is making human like skin that have bio-components of real arms.
Google Officials Statement
Andrew Conard, head of Google life sciences said in one of his interviews to The Atlantic that, “So imagine that you swallow a pill and that pill has small things called nanoparticles in it, decorated on their surface with markers that attach to cancer cells.”
He again added regarding the Nanoparticle Platform project that, “We have them circulate through your whole body, and we collect them in the vasculature of the arm with a magnet, and you ask them what they saw.”