by thenewgreen
Google Ventures generally isn’t taking the old biotech route, betting on companies somewhere along the winding path of developing drugs that may — but probably won’t — someday earn Food and Drug Administration approval. Rather, the firm is focused on companies leveraging the increasingly powerful capacities of computer science, including big data, cloud processing and genomic sequencing, to improve diagnostics or treatments.In the second part of my two-part interview, which has been edited for space and clarity, Maris discusses the promise of these tools for medicine as well as what’s still standing in the way.