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Tag Archives: Google
Artificial Intelligence Outsmarts Past Practices that Predict Patient Outcomes
Google's "Medical Brain" can even predict how long a hospital patient has to live
Google has been playing a guessing game with the human race for quite some time now. Its Smart Replies, which is built into Gmail, reads the message our colleague has sent to us and suggests a number of short, plausible answers. … Continue reading
A Big Week for California Assembly Bills Addressing End-of-Life Issues
California tackles both the aid-in-dying as well as the first digital assets bill
It’s been a big week for end-of-life legislative action in the state of California. Given the state’s size, hence importance, many eyes watch as two assembly bills currently work their way through the process. The first is the aid-in-dying bill. This past … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Aid in Dying, Assisted Suicide vs Aid-in-dying, California Aid-in-Dying Bill, California Assembly Bill AB 691, Death and Dying, Digital Assets, Google, Google and Apple, Lobby Group that Represents Microsoft, physician assisted dying, What are Digital Assets, Yahoo and Facebook Digital Assets
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Calico Picks Up Steam: Cynthia Kenyon Joins Google ‘Anti-Death’ Project
UCSF geneticist Cynthia Kenyon joins Google’s new biotech company to explore death, aging, and end of life diseases.
This week, it was announced that high profile UCSF geneticist Cynthia Kenyan will be joining the new Google start-up “Calico.” Kenyan is renowned in the genetic research community for exploring anti-aging technology, and her addition to the Google team is … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Us
Tagged Aging, Anti-death, Calico, Cynthia Kenyan, Death, Dr. Kenyan, end-of-life, Google, Google calico, Larry Page, UCSF
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23andMe Says Ancestral and Genetic Knowledge Can Prevent Death
Why the startup that claims to “save your life” is in trouble with the FDA
We’re no strangers to marketing techniques with ambitious promises in America. Every day, we’re seduced by packaging that assures us we’ll be happier, thinner, healthier, etc., if only we buy or consume a company’s service or product. But just how … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged 23andMe, Ancestry, Anne Wojcicki, Death, DNA profiling, Family History, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Google, Health, Life Saving, Silicon Valley
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