Google Life Sciences teams up with Sanofi to take down diabetes

Google Life Sciences, the new Google Alphabet standalone division established several weeks ago, today entered into a partnership with Sanofi, a French pharmaceutical firm to expand its research into treatments for diabetes. Sanofi and Google will pool their expertise in science and tech to work on more integrated ways to collect, analyze and understand information, and in doing so, hopefully make it easier for patients to better manage and lower the cost of the chronic disease. Diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot produce, or the body cannot adequately use, insulin. A hormone made by the pancreas, insulin lets glucose from food pass from the blood stream…
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