Google`s anti-aging Calico Project

October 11, 2013, 2:16 pm
Google`s anti-aging Calico Project

Google seems interested not just in electric cars, tablets and Operating Systems, but also in discovering how people age and why diseases exist. Enter the Google Calico Project.Read on...
According to information made available, the Calico project will have almost unlimited resources available, given the importance and complexity of its outcome. Google appears ready to invest "hundreds of millions" or more in the initiative.
Google X labs is the father of the Calico project which was announced last month. The final stage of the project will be to face aging and human illness.The project, which sounds straight off a sci-fi movie, is led by ex-Genentech CEO Art Levinson, a person who is also an Apple Chairman.Fortune writer Dan Primack found information according to which the Calico project`s main focus is finding the root cause of serious, lethal diseases and conditions. There are a vast number of research groups and scientists worldwide working on similar, smaller scale, research, yet Google wants results and has the resources to get them.
Moreover the Calico projects wants to discover the
 
genetic causes of aging, and whether or not medicine is able to slow them down, or even stop them.At the very least, Google wants to see how the life of a person in their 7th or 8th decade of life can be improved.
As Primack says, the project 
will be more a research initiative rather than
 €œa biopharma startup that will be in clinical trials within a couple of years.€ 
The Calico project will involve a vast amount of cash, so we can`t really imagine Google not wanting to benefit from its, any, results.
The Google X labs track record includes the Google Glass and self-driving cars, so we believe the Calico project eventually will provide Google a unique opportunity to go where no-one else has been before, in known history at least...
 
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