Verely, an Alphabet company, is looking for 10,000 volunteers to carry out some studies on people’s health. The goal is to collect lots of data
Like Microsoft and its program to cure cancer, Google is also serious about developing technology for scientific research. Verily, a company that is part of the Alphabet group, will try to find a cure for many diseases in the coming years.
The Google subsidiary, which specializes precisely in technological solutions to understand and improve health, has in fact launched a recruitment campaign aimed at finding 10 thousand patients to carry out its long study. Baseline Project, this is the name of the research, will aim to analyze over the years, combining technology and medicine, the health of volunteers. The ultimate goal is to exploit this data, accumulated over time, to understand the origin of many diseases and prevent them. The team of researchers thus hopes to find a way to defeat cancer or other terrible diseases, such as diabetes or heart disease.
Data as a weapon to fight cancer
The project of Google and Verily will be carried out in collaboration with Duke University School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine. Everything will revolve around data collection. Participants will be monitored through the use of wearable sensors, smartwatches and systems that can monitor the heartbeat, and will have to undergo periodic instrumental examinations, which include X-rays and heart scans. And that’s not all. Each volunteer’s sleep quality will also be analyzed. Patients will also have to undergo blood, saliva and DNA tests, the latter often used to discover the onset of cancer. As mentioned, the study will last for several years. Each participant will be monitored for four years. As Chris Dancy, the world’s most connected man, says, data could save many lives in the future.
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