A former Google executive was just named CEO of a company developing a blood test for early cancer detection (GOOG)

Google Grail, a healthcare firm developing a blood test for early cancer detection, named former Google X Senior Vice President Jeff Huber as its CEO Wednesday. Huber said he wants to apply his experience building large-scale data systems to improve the gene sequencing technology used by Grail to detect cancerous material in patients who show no symptoms of the disease. San Francisco-based Grail was formed by gene sequencing company Illumina Inc and received more than $100 million in Series A fi...