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Microsoft vows to end cancer – here's how it plans to do it

by September 20, 2016

written by 20^th Sep 16 10:05 am

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Microsoft is on a mission to tackle cancer using its technology to treat diseased cells.

The tech giant has announced that it working with the world’s best biologists, programmers and engineers to tackle the disease.

According to Cancer Research, over 160,000 people die from cancer every year.

Chris Bishop, laboratory director at Microsoft Research, said: “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.

“It’s not just an analogy, it’s a deep mathematical insight. Biology and computing are disciplines which seem like chalk and cheese but which have very deep connections on the most fundamental level.”

Andrew Philips, head of the group, said: “It’s long term, but… I think it will be technically possible in five to 10 years time to put in a smart molecular system that can detect disease.”

Dr Jasmin Fisher, senior researcher and an associate professor at Cambridge University, said: “If we are able to control and regulate cancer then it becomes like any chronic disease and then the problem is solved.”

“I think for some of the cancers five years, but definitely within a decade. Then we will probably have a century free of cancer.”