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, ...

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 ...

When will Novartis and Google begin testing the autofocus contact lens they have been developing? Well, there’s still no clear date in sight. The pharmaceutical company announced late last week they ...

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 ...

Google is teaming up with pharmaceutical giant Novartis to develop a smart contact lens intended to replace reading glasses for people who are farsighted and glucose monitors for those with diabetes.

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 ...

The advantage of constant, non-invasive blood sugar monitoring for diabetics, who otherwise have to stick themselves one or more times a day to draw a drop of blood for testing, could be huge.

Novartis and Google are cooperating on smart-lens technology. Novartis yesterday announced that its Alcon eye-care division will work to develop and commercialize the technology from the search ...