Do you want to live as long as a Vulcan, sea turtle, or Time Lord? If Google has its way, maybe you will in the not-too-distant future. Calico's announcement did not reveal much about the company's ...

First they dominated the desktop. Now they’re after the afterlife. Google on Wednesday announced Calico, an ambitious new company that aims to solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity today: ...

The Google-backed company is taking its mission to extend the human life span further, partnering with biopharmaceutical firm AbbVie. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is looking for the Fountain of Youth in its latest expansion beyond Internet search. The ambitious quest to reverse the aging process and extend human life will be pursued ...

Google didn’t spill much on Calico, the Google Ventures founded biotech company that made headlines last month by taking on human mortality and challenging aging, but that hasn’t stopped new tidbits ...

The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way ...

Back in May, Google CEO Larry Page hopped on his company’s first quarter earnings call and talked about using technology to improve life. “There are so many opportunities to create technology that ...

Google's Calico biotech company is ready to begin battling age-related diseases -- and ready to profit from its drugs and therapies, too. Calico, the independent company led by Genentech chairman Art ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s ambitious health startup is teaming up with biotechnology drugmaker AbbVie in a $500 million joint venture that will try to develop new ways to treat cancer and other diseases ...

AbbVie and Google parent company Alphabet are each committing $500 million to continue funding the scientists researching aging at the ambitious Alphabet unit called Calico, the two companies ...