Verily’s all-out war on disease seeks healthy returns

"When Andy Conrad spun Verily out of Google’s secretive research facility, X, he declared that the newly formed life sciences unit of Alphabet was on a quest to “defeat mother nature” — through “truth”. Four years on, this journey has taken some strange paths: from biohacking mosquitoes and putting sensors on babies’ nappies to developing tiny devices to control electrical pulses in the body. Verily began as a Google X..." Lire la suite