Medical, health, & genomics
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Nanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or…
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PhD Summer School brings top students to Cambridge
By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Pivoting from the Old World charm of High Tea to contemplating a dystopian AI-dominated future was among the many experiences facing more than 80 doctoral students at the PhD…
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99DOTS
99DOTS is a technology-enabled project focusing on medication adherence for anti-Tuberculosis drugs. Treatment programs wrap each anti-TB blister pack in a custom envelope, which hides phone numbers behind the medication. Patients can only see these…
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FaST-LMM
NEW: Ludicrous speed LMM can run 1 million samples. A version of FaST-LMM has now been optimized for use in the cloud and cloud sized data. If you are interested in reading about it, click…
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Nanotechnology Assay Development for Environmental and Medical Applications
During the past two decades, the rate of development and production of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) have rapidly increased due to their potential applications in medicine, cosmetics, energy, manufacturing, catalysis, food preservation, etc. However, the biological…
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Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing,…
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Faculty Summit 2016 – Machine Reading for Science and Society
Machine reading automates knowledge extraction from text. Traditional machine learning methods are hindered by the scarcity of annotated examples, which motivates the development of modern approaches that leverage “free lunches” such as existing ontologies and…
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Faculty Summit 2016 – How to Keep your Genome Secret
Over the last 10 years, the cost of sequencing the human genome has come down to around $1,000 per person. Human genomic data is a gold-mine of information, potentially unlocking the secrets to human health…
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Faculty Summit 2016 – Computational Problems in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Molecular biology, healthcare and medicine have been slowly morphing into large-scale, data driven sciences dependent on machine learning, natural language processing, applied statistics, privacy and security, compression and efficient search. For example, drug development timelines…
