This announcement may be surprising to those who remember the short-lived Google Health (2008-11) - a personal health information centralization service that allowed Google users to volunteer their health records in order to obtain a merged health record from Google. However Calico is not a consumer-driven endeavor but, rather, one of research and scholarship.
Calico's research aims to analyze the biological mechanisms behind aging. Levinson has stated that "much of that early research might be done by providing money to academic scientists, though Calico might also hire its own researchers."
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