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Google, Biogen team up for multiple sclerosis research

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:46 am
by MSUK
Google, expanding its foray into medical research, will join Biogen Idec, maker of MS drugs, to study environmental and biological contributors to the condition’s progression.

The collaboration is the second major pharmaceutical partnership for the life science division of Google X labs, which has produced Google Glass and self-driving cars. Google X sees itself as providing the technical and innovative fire power for a “moonshot” in the health care field, said head of the division Andrew Conrad........ Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/technology