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Will Google's groundbreaking health study really do any good?

By Jessica Hamzelou

28 April 2017

A medical sample

Aside from medical samples, Google’s spin-off company Verily will collect a wealth of other data

Verily Project Baseline

Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care 鈥 an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health data from 10,000 volunteers. The company鈥檚 health spinout Verily describes its Project Baseline as 鈥an effort to map human health鈥.

People have been mapping human health by collecting data from volunteers for decades, but Google is billing its version as a step change. That鈥檚 largely down to the addition of snazzy new technologies that Verily will use to track the…

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