Biology, genetics and medicines are areas in which Google has shown sustained interest for many years according to Laurent Alexandre, President of DNAVision (a genome sequencing company) in an interview with the Figaro magazine, which is producing an article on the founders of the company.

Google created 23andMe, a company that decrypts the genome of its clients and focuses on embryo selection. It was recently successful in “patenting a method for selecting donor gametes based on complex computerised genetic calculations” (Gènéthique press review on September 30th, 2013) Today, it is launching Calico – a biotechnology company. With this, Google “is giving itself twenty years to increase life expectancy by twenty years or so“, with the bigger picture in mind “to ‘combat death’ ” explains Laurent Alexandre.