article_snippet: Google unveiled plans earlier this year for a cancer-detecting wristband that Google was testing using moulds of human skin.
article_snippet: Now Google has been awarded a patent for the technology that will 'automatically modify or destroy  targets in the blood that have an adverse health effect'.
article_snippet: Google's patent explained Google's patent wearable (illustrated) could target any substances or objects that, when present in the blood, may affect the health of a wearer by transmitting energy into the vessels. 
article_snippet: Google continued that Google wearable would target  any substances or objects that, when present in the blood, may affect  the health of wearer by transmitting energy into the vessels.
article_snippet: So Google started making skin.
article_snippet: Google said Google could target certain proteins that have been implicated as a partial cause of Parkinson's disease, for example, or cancer cells .
article_snippet: As the wearable is still in the early stages of development, Google X is working to determine what defines a 'healthy' person.
article_snippet: Google X are monitoring 175 healthy volunteers to frequently collect physiological information.
article_snippet: Mr Conrad said that the Google X team is trying to change medicine from being episodic and reactive to being proactive and preventive. '
highlights_snippet: Patent details a wearable that could target  substances in a wearer's blood .
  