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Official Google Health news and updates on how we’re progressing our mission to help billions of people be healthier.
Mountain View, CA
Joined November 2019
Happy New Year! Our latest research, in collaboration with @DeepMindAI, has been published in @nature today, demonstrating how our AI model can assist physicians in spotting breast cancer - a condition that affects 1 in 8 women in the US - with greater accuracy than experts.
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2 billion people globally suffer from skin conditions. Our CE-marked AI-powered dermatology tool will help people research common skin conditions. #GoogleIO
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Our research collaboration with @Moorfields & @DeepMind, published in @NatureMedicine, shows how our AI system could help predict the development age-related macular degeneration. Our system performed as well as, & in some cases better than, experts.
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We’re excited to share new research on Project AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), our conversational medical AI! 💬 We're exploring its potential to assist clinicians in primary & specialty care. 🔗
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In real-world deployment, medical #AI may encounter conditions it has never seen in training. Recognizing them is an important step to improving safety. Our new research demonstrates a novel method to tackle this challenge.
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Introducing #GoogleHealthStudies: a new @Android app designed to make health research more accessible, provide better representation and help researchers focus on advancing health. Join our first study w/ @BostonChildrens:
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We're excited to announce more healthcare customers will preview Med-PaLM 2 this September! 🙌 Providing greater access to #HealthAI tools is key in developing LLMs safely and responsibly. 🤝 Learn more and see how early adopters are already benefiting:
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You don’t want to miss this ➡️ join us February 4th at our virtual event, #TheCheckUp, and learn how we’re working to tackle some of #healthcare’s biggest challenges. Save the date:
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Starting soon! Join us as we explore our latest innovations supporting our company-wide effort to make billions of people healthier. Watch here: #TheCheckUp.
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This #MentalHealthMonth we’re sharing new updates to support your mental health 💚:. 💬 Pre-written prompts developed with @IASPinfo to help connect with others .ℹ️ Expanded crisis resource panels for eating disorders on @YouTube.👉 And more:
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It's more important than ever to #BeKindtoYourMind. That's why we've collaborated with @CDCgov in the US to highlight five tips on the @Google homepage for coping with stress during COVID-19.
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📢Big #HealthAI news: Our latest medically tuned model is here — and it's available to allowlisted @GoogleCloud customers.🙌. Meet MedLM. It's a suite of models, built on Med-PaLM 2, that helps answer medical questions, summarize information, and more:
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We’re now showing #COVID19 testing centers in many US states on Google Search, including in the new “Testing” tab that also includes links to additional resources and guidance from local health officials.
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We’re updating our COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports thanks to feedback from public health officials. Starting today, you can download the insights in machine readable CSV format.
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Taking your temperature with a smartphone? We can do that. Body temperature in the Thermometer app for Pixel 8 Pro is the first FDA-granted body temperature app for smartphones. Find out how we built it, how it works, and how to use it:
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On #WorldCancerDay, we join @UICC to re-imagine a world where millions of preventable cancer deaths are saved and access to treatment and care is equitable for all - no matter who you are or where you live. At Google Health, we're using our tech and research expertise to help⤵️.
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Today we are publishing an early release of our COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to help provide insights into what has changed in response to work from home, shelter in place, and other policies aimed at flattening the curve of this pandemic
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Increasing #HealthLiteracy helps people make better informed health decisions. That's why providing high quality info that is easy to understand is one of our missions at Google. Here are 7 ways our products & services can help improve health literacy:
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Today at the Global COVID-19 Summit, Dr. @KBDeSalvo announced that @Googleorg has committed an additional $150M in donated ads to public health and government agencies for PSAs to encourage vaccinations and advance global pandemic preparedness ↓ @WhiteHouse.
When it comes to connecting people with scientifically-backed info related to #COVID19, we've made it a prioritized area. #GoogleOrg is providing an additional $150M in Search ads, bringing our total commitment to $1B+. More ↓
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In the US, we've updated healthcare providers Business Profiles to make it easier to find the right care with new features on Search & Maps that can show the insurance a provider accepts, the language assistance provided at an office & more. Search "Doctor near me" on Google.
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AI 🤝 Health. At #GoogleIO, we shared our recent achievements with Med-PaLM 2, and announced that we're working on a multimodal version to expand our impact. Check it out 👇 .
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A huge step forward for LLMs in medicine! ✨. Our foundational Med-PaLM research has been published in @Nature journal. Learn more about what this could mean for the future of healthcare:
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Our new user-centered research examines how nurses in Thailand are using our diabetic eye disease AI. This is one of the first published studies examining how a deep learning system is used in patient care
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Watch #AgeOfAI to learn more about how our AI technologies are making speech technology more accessible to people with disabilities and helping doctors prevent blindness in people with diabetes -
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Learn more about Care Studio — our software tool that brings together patient records from multiple EHRs within a healthcare system to give clinicians a centralized view of patient data and the ability to search across records.
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📣 Exciting news for healthcare developers! We just launched Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource to help developers build and implement AI models for healthcare more efficiently. Learn more:
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To bridge the gap between #MedicalAI research and real-world clinical impact, we’re introducing MedPerf, an open benchmarking platform that efficiently evaluates #AI models on diverse real world medical data. Read our new paper in @MLCommons:
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Our partner @PacBio is introducing the Revio sequencing system, an instrument that runs on our #deeplearning technology, DeepConsensus. Learn more about how Google Health's technology works:
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Introducing Med-Gemini, our new family of AI research models for medicine, building on Gemini's advanced capabilities. We've achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of benchmarks and unlocked novel applications. #MedGemini #AIResearch #MedicalAI
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How are we working to make #healthcare more accessible for everyone, everywhere? Next week, @ymatias, lead of our Health AI team will share our latest research and developments in tech and AI. #TheCheckUp
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Our Med-PaLM 2 model was among the first to show the potential of medical LLMs with expert-level performance answering medical questions. We are pleased to share new results in collaboration with @StanfordMed, published in @NatureMedicine. Learn more:
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To support the global community in its fight against #COVID19, we've collaborated with @GoogleAI, @googlecloud & @Googleorg to launch datasets & modeling tools that are accessible to the public to help address this health & economic crisis.
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Introducing DeepConsensus, a new method for correcting sequencing errors. By improving the quality of sequence data, researchers may be able to assemble more difficult parts of the genome, further improve accuracy and reduce costs in the future @GoogleAI
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In 5️⃣ days, @greg_corrado, Distinguished Scientist at Google, will share how we’re bringing @GoogleAI solutions into real-world health settings with our partners. #AI. RSVP so you don't miss this during #TheCheckUp:
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For National Public Health Week, we wanted to say thank you to public health workers everywhere who are working on COVID-19. Learn how we’re supporting public health → #GoogleDoodle
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Taking the stage on the first day of #HLTH2021 is our Chief Health Officer, @KBDeSalvo to chat all about how we're bringing the helpfulness of Google to health and embedding focus and expertise into all of our health work. #GoogleHealth
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Molecular biomarkers are critical for #BreastCancer management. We showed that #ML can predict biomarkers from low-cost “H&E” images, and drew connections between the ML-recognized morphological patterns and prior medical knowledge. Learn more:
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See our team’s recent research where they’ve demonstrated machine learning can reveal undetected signs of anemia in the eye from non-invasive images -
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We're proud to share that our work to research AI in #breastcancer is supported through the Artificial Intelligence in Health & Care Award. This work will further assess the feasibility of AI to see how it could benefit and support clinicians in the future:
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Introducing a new tool that uses @googlemaps technology to identify areas in #Nigeria where geographic access to emergency obstetric care (#EmOC) is limited. 🤰. See how it can help decision makers intervene:
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We’re proud to announce a new initiative w/@MayoClinic to study the use of AI to help clinicians plan radiotherapy treatment for cancer. We hope this research will help improve the efficiency of radiotherapy and help patients access treatment more quickly:
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@Fitbit and @QuestDX are launching the WEAR-ME Study to learn how #wearables can improve metabolic health. See if you quality to join the study: #MetabolicHealth.
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In a time when anxiety is on the rise globally, we’ve partnered with @NAMICommunicate to launch an anxiety self-assessment tool in the U.S. to connect people to information and #mentalhealth resources. Read more
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We’ve integrated a postpartum depression (#PPD) self-assessment on Google Search to help new mothers, and their partners, easily identify the symptoms they may be experiencing and gain access to critical resources from @NAMICommunicate & @WomensHealth:
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Our Google Health purpose is simple: help people live their healthiest lives. We want to thank @dtfeinberg for helping us make significant progress towards that goal during his time here. We remain committed to this mission and our team is energized as we look to the future.
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Introducing Open Health Stack (OHS). A suite of open source tools that use FHIR to make it easier for you to build interoperable standards based digital health solutions. See how 🧑💻 in Kenya are using OHS to build a maternal health app ⬇️ #TheCheckUp.
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We’re 🤝 with @WHO to accelerate the future of digital care in low-resource settings. How? With Open Health Stack (OHS), a suite of open source building blocks that help local developers build next-gen healthcare applications. Find out more:
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Together with @NorthwesternMed, we're working on a clinical study to explore whether AI models can help to reduce the diagnosis time in the mammography process, which if successful, could improve breast cancer patients' experience. Learn more:
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Ensuring young women across the globe have access to accurate health information is of critical importance. Click below ⬇️ to watch the episodes on @YouTube and share with the women and girls in your life. #BodyOfKnowledge #DayOfTheGirl.
this #DayoftheGirl, @haileysani, @AmerAcadPeds doctors, & girls’ rights defenders empower young women and girls everywhere with knowledge about their bodies and rights. tune in to AAP’s channel today and tag a friend to check out the #BodyofKnowledge. →
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Today, in @arXiv, we published a novel AI research system - AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) - exploring how AI can support clinical diagnostic conversations. 🔗
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Our research on identifying which patients may develop diabetic eye disease has been published in @LancetDigitalH:
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“I believe AI has the potential to transform the health of people on a planetary scale that is akin to the discovery of penicillin.” Google Chief Health Officer @KBDeSalvo breaks down our top 3 approaches to #HealthAI ➡️
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Google is proud to support Dr. @abankethomas and his team to continue their #research to see how @GoogleMaps could be used to help pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. ⤵️ . Congratulations to the team!.
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AI can help solve the global shortage of radiologists, dermatologists and pathologists. @GoogleAI is using deep learning and domain-specific models to compress training data, and two new models are now available (cont)
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Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Our research in @Radiology_AI shows that radiologists using @GoogleAI to detect lung cancer increased accuracy, resulting in fewer unnecessary follow-ups and reduced healthcare burden:
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Today, @YouTube introduced an updated framework to simplify its medical misinformation policies and will begin to remove content that promotes certain cancer misinformation. Read the full announcement to learn more:
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Why do we consider information to be a social determinant of health? 🤔. While health information is becoming increasingly available, the quality of that information, its relevance, and its helpfulness impacts health outcomes and progress in #HealthEquity.
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Curious how #OpenHealthStack (OHS) is being used by app developers worldwide? 🤔 Now you can stay up to date on OHS at the new Open Health Stack Medium page! Check out our first blog post ➡️ and follow for future stories!
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Calling health startups – want to get plugged into the @Google ecosystem? Download this free Google for Health Startups Resource Roadmap and find out how we can support you:
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We’re excited to take home honors at the recent PrecisionFDA Truth Challenge. The team netted three of the four important best overall accuracy awards, thanks in part to a collaboration with @ucscgenomics. Learn more
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The COVID-19 Open Data Repository is one of the most comprehensive collections of up-to-date COVID-19-related info from more than 20K locations worldwide to help public health officials, researchers and policymakers in understanding & managing the virus:
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We’re collaborating with the @WHO to introduce an open source FHIR Software Developer Kit, designed to help @AndroidDev globally build mobile solutions for health applications. Learn more:
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Are you a healthcare professional creating content on @YouTube? If yes, keep reading… 👇. YouTube is expanding its Health Features program that helps people searching for health topics find channels like yours! 🧐. Apply for it here:
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Can #AI accurately predict biological age from retinal images and reveal insights that better predict age-related diseases? . According to our new paper it can! 👀. Learn more about our findings and how we're using #DeepLearning to make this possible:
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When it comes to your health, we know that knowledge is power. 🧠💪. That's why we're helping expand access to health information across Asia-Pacific by designing solutions in partnership with local organizations. ℹ️. Learn how in our latest blog post:
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We’re building a suite of tools to help clinicians take better care of patients, leveraging our expertise in organizing information. Head of @GoogleHealth @dtfeinberg shares how these tools can help clinicians focus on their patients.
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Meet 20 of our leaders who are dedicated to our mission of helping people live their healthiest lives via @BusinessInsider:
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Want to meet the real people powering Google Health? 👋 Our diverse group of doctors, engineers, and experts from all fields and areas of the world come together to help everyone, everywhere get healthier. So who’s ready to meet the team?
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New research provides a glimpse of an exciting future where AI can broadly, deeply contribute to healthcare. Med-Gemini demonstrates powerful multimodal capabilities with the potential to assist in clinician, researcher, and patient workflows. Learn how:
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AI is revolutionizing medicine, saving billions of years of research time. AlphaFold 3, developed by @IsomorphicLabs and @GoogleDeepMind, is driving breakthroughs in drug design, cancer treatment, and more. Insights from @maxjaderberg, chief AI officer:
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Generative AI for Healthcare is a 1-hour course that will teach you how to apply gen AI to your healthcare career through videos and a hands-on lab. Take the course for free by becoming a @googlecloud Innovator to receive 35 learning credits every month:
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#StayHomeSaveLives this #WorldHealthDay .Learn more about how you can donate to support the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
This year, #WorldHealthDay recognizes the tireless contributions of nurses and midwives everywhere. Help show your gratitude to all healthcare workers by staying home and staying safe. Find more helpful resources → #StayHomeSaveLives
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The new era of clinical data search is here. Vertex AI Search for Healthcare helps healthcare workers find critical information within health records and medical documents faster. Less time wasted, more time focused on patients. Learn more:
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A new protein-based LLM and AI model built on @googlecloud technology and developed by @Ginkgo Bioworks could accelerate drug development for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Learn more:
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Our deep learning-based model showed improved predictive performance of lymph node metastasis 🔍— suggesting that with further refinement and validation, it could be useful in informing clinical decision making. Read the study, published in @nature: (1/2).
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We are pleased to share our researchers' contributions in the battle against prostate cancer:.
A deep learning system for Gleason grading prostate biopsies demonstrated high agreement with expert urologic subspecialists (72%), significantly higher than general pathologists' agreement with the experts (58%) @GoogleHealth #PCSM #Pathology.
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Today on the blog, read about the latest from our two new research papers on how AI, particularly fine-tuned Gemini models, can create personalized health experiences that cater to individuals’ unique health journeys. . #AI #healthcare #personalizedhealth
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We asked the Google Health team to share their 2025 AI predictions, and Vishaal Virani, Head of Health, YouTube UK & Ireland, thinks AI will expand access to trusted health information across the globe.
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Watch @KBDeSalvo in this @TEDTalks explain how the partnership between tech and public health is trying to help slow the spread of #COVID19 .
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Join us as we explore Google Health’s latest innovations designed to bring the helpfulness of Google to health. Watch here or follow along with the thread ⤵️ #TheCheckUp.
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Part of @Google’s overall commitment to youth digital wellbeing and online safety for kids of all ages, this important initiative seeks to support the rollout of mental health training and resources to one million high school students and 10,000 teachers. Learn more 👇.
To help 1M high school students & 10k teachers grow strong habits, we're launching the Google Teen #MentalHealth Initiative w/ @SelenaGomez, @RareBeauty Rare Impact Fund, @DonorsChoose, @ChildMindInst, @JedFoundation, @TheSteveFund. More from Selena:
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Genome sequencing is faster and cheaper than ever – but obstacles to broad adoption remain. Join @Google’s genomics lead @acarroll_ATG & @ucscgenomics’ @BenedictPaten for a live-streamed discussion on genomic analysis and equity:
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Congratulations to .@UltimaGenomics on the announcement of their new instrument! Their team has retrained our open-source DeepVariant method on their own. Check out the application note for more details:
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How will gen AI, multimodal data collection, and cloud systems shape the future of medicine? On the @FixingHCPodcast, @Google’s Chief Health Officer Dr. Karen DeSalvo outlines the transformative impact of these technologies. Listen now →
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Congratulations to @PacBio on the release of their new Revio Sequencing System! Revio will run on #GoogleHealth's DeepConsensus on-board allowing for researchers to quickly & accurately identify genetic variants that cause diseases. 🧬.
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Every biological process depends on interactions between proteins. With AlphaProteo, @GoogleDeepMind's first AI system for designing novel protein binders, we can accelerate research in drug development and disease understanding. More:
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🚨 TOMORROW🚨 Tune in to learn how we're applying Google's mission to health. We’re not just building better healthcare, we’re helping people build healthier lives. Don't miss out: #TheCheckUp
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Delighted to share that @KBDeSalvo has been included in #MHMostInfluential! This prestigious program recognizes and honors those deemed by their peers and @modrnhealthcr to be the most influential individuals in the industry. 🎉
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New research 📢 . @Google teams find photoplethysmography, a non-invasive technique that measures blood volume changes using light, shows promise in detecting cardiovascular risks early, which can be particularly valuable in low-resource settings.🫀. More:
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