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Google founded a New Company, Calico, in an Effort to Make Life Better

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Google is constantly trying to reinvent the wheel, sometimes it works and other times it does not, and Google moves on – well here is hoping that their latest idea/investment in a new company called Calico, which stands for California Life Company, comes to fruition.  In an interview with  Time , Google’s Co-Founder and CEO, Larry Page, explained Google’s hits and misses into the healthcare field; Google Heath was one of those misses, although with their latest venture, Calico, he explains that certain benefits can only be obtained only after 10 or 20 years of going from an idea to something you can actually use, and health care is one such area.  In a  statement today on Google’s  site he announced this new investment saying:  Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives. It’s impossible to imagine anyone better than Art—one of the leading scientists, entrepreneurs