<p>Search giant Google is developing artificial human skin to test cancer-detecting nanoparticles that will work with a smart wristband.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Last year Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream and report back to a wristband.<br /><br />Now, the company is also using synthetic skin to develop the technology, theverge.com reported.<br /><br />Google employees told The Atlantic that the technology will use light signals to talk to the wristband through the superficial veins on the underside of the wrist.<br /><br />Shining lights through the skin means factoring in a range of skin types and colours, and so Google's scientists have built fake arms with "the same autofluorescence and biochemical components of real arms."<br /><br />"It's way weirder to have cancer cells floating through your body that are constantly trying to kill you," said Andrew Conrad, the head of Google's Life Sciences department.</p>
<p>Search giant Google is developing artificial human skin to test cancer-detecting nanoparticles that will work with a smart wristband.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Last year Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream and report back to a wristband.<br /><br />Now, the company is also using synthetic skin to develop the technology, theverge.com reported.<br /><br />Google employees told The Atlantic that the technology will use light signals to talk to the wristband through the superficial veins on the underside of the wrist.<br /><br />Shining lights through the skin means factoring in a range of skin types and colours, and so Google's scientists have built fake arms with "the same autofluorescence and biochemical components of real arms."<br /><br />"It's way weirder to have cancer cells floating through your body that are constantly trying to kill you," said Andrew Conrad, the head of Google's Life Sciences department.</p>