Sunday, 8 February 2015
Take a tour inside the lab that wants to cure cancer in "years, not decades"
At Google's life sciences lab, researchers are trying to make some major advancements in the fight against cancer. The project profiled here involves swallowing a pill that will put certain markers on your red blood cells. These little flags would raise a signal if cancerous cells were detected in the bloodstream and pass that info along to a wristband, a la Fitbit. Currently, the team is studying exactly how human skin works, making artificial tissue to test how the wristband device could work. In true Google form, it's an incredible prospect that could change modern medicine, but you can't help but wonder—what would they do with all the data?
Learn how scientists are learning more and more about the actual shape of cancer cells on this episode of Fig. 1.
