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Larry and Sergey Are Building Google Maps But For The Human Body

Nitasha Tiku · 07/25/14 12:50PM

Last night, Google announced what the Wall Street Journal says "may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever." Baseline Study will try to create the most comprehensive picture of "what a healthy human being should be" by mapping personal genetic and molecular information. It will start with anonymous data from 175 people and then "thousands more," says the paper.