Novartis, the Swiss healthcare firm, has announced it will license Google’s exciting smart contact lens technology, initially unveiled by the Google X team at the beginning of this year. This is the ...

Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to ...

Next year, Novartis in collaboration with Google will begin human tests of a smart contact lens that aims to restore the eye’s natural autofocus, according to Reuters. Joe Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, ...

Google and Novartis are working on two smart contact lenses, and news broke this week about both of them: A new patent application sheds light on how Google might power its glucose-sensing contact ...

Novartis ' Alcon eye-care division recently announced a new partnership to license Google 's experimental "smart" contact lens. The lens, which could theoretically detect glucose levels via tears, was ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has struck an agreement with Google to develop "smart" contact lenses that would help diabetics to track their blood glucose levels or restore the eye's ...

Novartis has abandoned a 2016 goal to start testing its autofocus contact lens on people, though it said the groundbreaking product it is making with internet giant Google is "progressing steadily." ...

One day, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, our bodies will be punctuated by an array of chips and sensors, devices that will constantly mine us for data about our health. Now researchers at the ...