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The newest company company since Google restructured into Alphabet has been announced, and it's the Life Sciences division, which … will be called just that.Life Sciences will focus on creating smart contact lenses that monitor vitals of the wearer, in addition to other projects like color coded nano-medbots, working on early cancer detection, and developing a Star Trek tricorder-like device.Biologist Andy Conrad, who ran the division when it was part of the Google X division, will serve as CEO of Life sciences. Conrad got his PhD at UCLA, co-founded the National Genetics Institute, built the North Carolina Research Campus alongside Dole Foods, and was the chief scientist at LabCorp prior to moving over to Google in 2013.Google announced the decision at a recent shareholder meeting, with the intention of creating an umbrella organization to house its various projects while giving them more autonomy. The companies under the Alphabet umbrella will run as independent companies, as happens with any number of conglomerates out there, such as Berkshire Hathaway.