Tuesday 8 December 2015

Google Life Sciences, Alphabet’s Health Care Moonshot Lab, Is Now Called ‘Verily’

Here come the Alphabet soup renames. Yesterday it was Google Ventures, the conglomerate’s venture arm, which is now just GV.

Today it’s Google Life Sciences, the experimental health care lab that spun out of Google X. Henceforth, it is “Verily.”

The Alphabet company is led by respected biologist Andy Conrad. Linus Upson, a 10-year Google vet who co-founded the Chrome browser with CEO Sundar Pichai, joined as head of engineering in May. As we reported earlier, Upson has been in talks with a leading geneticist about a potential genetic engineering project. For the full article click here 



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