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European drug maker Novartis will license Google’s “smart...

European drug maker Novartis will license Google’s “smart lens” technology for “all ocular medical uses,” Novartis said in a Tuesday news release (http://bit.ly/1ylO6AR). “Google’s key advances in the miniaturization of electronics complement Novartis’s deep pharmaceuticals and medical device expertise,” Novartis…

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said. “Novartis aims to enhance the ways in which diseases are mapped within the body and ultimately prevented.” The company said it will focus on two areas: diabetic patients and those with presbyopia, the diminishing ability to focus on near objects.