Google’s Next Big Project Is Fighting Heart Disease
by The Daily Eye Team November 17 2015, 5:03 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secsThe tech giant is teaming with the American Heart Association in a $50 million effort (ORLANDO, Fla.) — A company whose name is synonymous with eyeballs on the Internet is turning its attention to hearts. Google Life Sciences, a research group recently spun off from its parent corporation, is teaming with the American Heart Association in a $50 million project to find new ways to fight heart disease. The heart association’s half, $25 million over five years, is the largest single research investment in its history. For the Google group, its latest biomedical venture will join projects that include whiz-bang devices such as driverless cars, contact lenses that monitor blood-sugar for diabetics and health-tracking wristbands.