FUTURE OF MEDICINE

Originally a Google X division, Verily Life Sciences was created as part of Alphabet Inc in 2015

Verily’s projects include contact lenses that can change focus automatically

Its special spoon for Parkinson’s sufferers helps them cope with hand tremors

It develops robots to carry out complex surgery and has produced electronic implants to correct problems in the nervous system that cause disease

A pill containing magnetic particles 10,000 times narrower than a human hair can detect cancer and disease in the blood