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Microsoft is now setting its sights on one of the most important questions in science - how to cure cancer.
One of its research labs aims to tackle the disease as if it were a bug in a computer system, with the hopes of being able to make cells into living computers that can 'reprogramme' cancer cells within the decade.
At the Microsoft Research lab, based in the university city of Cambridge, 150 scientists and software developers are working on a wide variety of projects as part of a 'biological computation' unit.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/biological-computation/
The lab includes some of the world's best biologists, programmers and engineers who are tackling cancer as if it were a virus in a computer system.
The company says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers.
The idea is these cells could be programmed, and reprogrammed, to treat diseases like cancer.
Some might say this is a dramatic change in direction for the company, but Mr Bishop does not agree.
'I think it's a very natural thing for Microsoft to be looking at because we have tremendous expertise in computer science and what is going on in cancer is a computational problem,' he said.
Microsoft's overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches, said Jeannette Wing, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of the company's research labs.
One approach is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems - like the research the Cambridge lab is looking into.
Another is based on the idea that researchers can apply techniques such as machine learning to the plethora of biological data that has suddenly become available.
'The collaboration between biologists and computer scientists is actually key to making this work,' Wing said.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3063835...g-lab-wants-to-fight-diseases-by-reprogrammin
One of its research labs aims to tackle the disease as if it were a bug in a computer system, with the hopes of being able to make cells into living computers that can 'reprogramme' cancer cells within the decade.
At the Microsoft Research lab, based in the university city of Cambridge, 150 scientists and software developers are working on a wide variety of projects as part of a 'biological computation' unit.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/biological-computation/
The lab includes some of the world's best biologists, programmers and engineers who are tackling cancer as if it were a virus in a computer system.
The company says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers.
The idea is these cells could be programmed, and reprogrammed, to treat diseases like cancer.
Some might say this is a dramatic change in direction for the company, but Mr Bishop does not agree.
'I think it's a very natural thing for Microsoft to be looking at because we have tremendous expertise in computer science and what is going on in cancer is a computational problem,' he said.
Microsoft's overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches, said Jeannette Wing, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of the company's research labs.
One approach is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems - like the research the Cambridge lab is looking into.
Another is based on the idea that researchers can apply techniques such as machine learning to the plethora of biological data that has suddenly become available.
'The collaboration between biologists and computer scientists is actually key to making this work,' Wing said.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3063835...g-lab-wants-to-fight-diseases-by-reprogrammin
