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Google is developing a cancer and heart attack-detecting pill

This article is about how Google, one of the largest media institutions, are taking a different path, and is looking to create a nanoparticle pill that could identify cancers, diseases, and other problems, before they become severe.

• More than £100bn a year is spent on the National Health Service in Britain.
• The system known as the “nanoparticle platform” is Google’s latest venture into the lucrative health market, which is worth around 10% of the economy of developed nations.
• The pill would contain magnetic particles approximately 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

I believe that this article is very interesting as it shows how big of an institution Google actually is; they are working on producing driverless cars, pills that could find out whether you will have a disease, and even contact lens that can monitor signs of diabetes.