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is google at all into biotech?

• deleted 5y ago
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• twinge 5y ago
  Alphabet owns Verily Life Sciences[1] and backs Calico[2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)
• ford 5y ago
  DeepMind also released this paper/system [0] last year, which had a lot of hype around it [0] https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/ https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
  • shmageggy 5y ago
    Now with a drug-discovery applied spin-off https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/blog https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/blog
• colincooke 5y ago
  I'd say so. I've had the pleasure of working with some of the researchers on the applied science team, and they had great depth of knowledge and interest in current problems facing the bio space.
• gwern 5y ago
  Sure. You've probably seen articles based on genomics (eg. rapid sequencing of undiagnosed rare diseases) and brain scanning work (fruit fly) Googlers have contributed to. Google is not as big in those fields in, say, AI, but still present.