Verily
is charting a rapid-fire
pace in med tech, inking deals this past year and working with
researchers to expand its reach in the industry. Next up on the
company's agenda? Building a Google-like search engine for medical
research.
Verily
CEO Andrew Conrad will work with a group of academic hospitals,
doctors, universities and patient advocates to build the "Google of
human
systems biology," Conrad said at the recent Future of Genomic Medicine
conference in San Diego, as quoted by
Fast Company. The way Conrad sees it, "most of the information
that scientists use isn't easily available" and it "sits around in
difficult-to-crack domains."
The
company would try to reverse this trend by building a library that uses
machine-learning technology to facilitate research. The system "doesn't
work as wonderfully as a human" but "it can answer questions," Conrad
said.
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