Google Pill to Diagnose Disease
October 29th, 2014How about a Google suppository?
Via: Wired:
Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and other diseases.
Andrew Conrad, the head of life sciences inside the company’s Google X research lab, revealed the project on Tuesday morning at a conference here in Southern California. According to Conrad, the company is fashioning nanoparticles—particles about one billionth of a meter in width—that combine a magnetic material with antibodies or proteins that can attach to and detect other molecules inside the body. The idea is that patients will swallow a pill that contains these particles, and after they enter the bloodstream—attempting to identify molecules that would indicate certain health problems—a wearable device could use their magnetic cores to gather them back together and read what they’ve found.
Google suppository indeed. They’re probably working on that as we speak 😉
These Google brains really do seem to be made up of transhumanist nut-jobs who won’t be happy until the human body is a device fused with nanotech and embedded in the “internet of things;” until smart meters and washing machines can be turned on by twitching an eyebrow.
They really are a different species.