Why is Google developing artificial synthetic skin?

Google hires many researchers and conducts research in various fields with a large amount of research expenses, but now it seems that development of artificial synthetic skin is also being promoted, for the reasonThe AtlanticIt is revealed.

Why Is Google Making Human Skin? - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/384922/why-is-google-making-human-skin/

Why Is Google Making Human Skin? - YouTube


Over the past three years, Google has built state-of-the-art facilities for secretly conducting health research, hiring over 100 physicians and scientists. The Atlantic is exploring what kind of things Google is going to do in the health field.


Dr. Andrew Conrad, the representative of Google Life Sciences, responded to The Atlantic's interview this time.


The research team led by Dr. Conrad is currently developing "wristband". However, it is not just a wristband, it detects cancer cells from the human blood and discovers cancer in the early stages.


By wrapping this wrist band, drinking nanoparticle capsules makes it possible to detect guns.


A small white circle is a nanoparticle. This is about 1/2000 of the size of erythrocytes.


This adsorbs to cancer cells.


Nanoparticles are mixed in the blood with cancer cells and circulate in the human body. The white spots in the figure are cancer cells and nanoparticles in the blood.


In the wrist band currently under development by Google, it is possible to gather this nanoparticle in blood vessels below the wristband with magnetic force.


By doing so, you will be able to check the information collected by the nanoparticles circulating in the body by the wristband.


Information that nanoparticles gather in the body communicates with the wristband and nanoparticles in the blood using light to exchange data. In order to obtain this data it is necessary to accurately detect the light emitted by nanoparticles in the body and for this we need to know in detail how the light passes through the human skin. Therefore, the development of artificial synthetic skin is being promoted.


Artificial synthetic skin is made of the same ingredients as genuine human skin. However, there are individual differences in skin thickness, so it is necessary to know in detail how the light passes for every person with different skin characteristics, Dr. Conrad.


After the interview, James Hamblin of The Atlantic is wearing a white coat and visiting the laboratory.


We currently monitor the health of 175 volunteers and collect physiological data frequently. The goal of the study seems to be to define what kind of person is "healthy person".


Hambrin who will be the subject of the experiment being done currently.


In the current study, we measure the light on the skin of various subjects to see how the light passes through the skin so that the wristband can detect the light emitted by the nanoparticles in the blood.


The wristband type device developed by Dr. Conrad's research team is also covered in the following article and seems to be a device which can detect not only cancer but also various medical conditions such as heart paralysis and stroke at an early stage.

Google is developing a device to discover cancer, cardioplegia, stroke, etc at a very early stage with nanoparticles - GIGAZINE