Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Google’s clandestine cutting-edge health research facility has created synthetic human skin as part of its innovative cancer detecting project that aims to prevent the disease before it develops, US media has revealed.

Google X laboratories, located in Mountain View, California, has been working on a wristband that can detect cancer cells and warn of impending heart attacks and other diseases transmitted through a person’s blood. The Atlantic visited the semi-secretive research center, which employs more than 100 doctors and scientists, and asked its head why Google is making human skin.

The head of research explained that these nanoparticles with cancer cells will “light up.” In order to catch the light, scientists need to study how it passes through the skin.

Thus, Google started making “practice arms” with synthetic skin and real human skin from donors. Google is also constantly monitoring 175 healthy volunteers with a goal to understand what defines a healthy person. Among the tech giant's other innovative projects are: a tremor-canceling spoon for Parkinson's patients, contact lenses with micro cameras, Project Loon – a balloon-powered internet, driverless cars, and delivery drones.