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Adjusting Childhood Pneumonia Vaccination Periods May Save Lives in Nepal
Nearly a million children die from pneumonia each year, making it a leading cause of death and the single most important health issue facing children under the age of five. The standard vaccination schedule calls…
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Programming Life
Life is a product of Living Software: programmable matter that orchestrates a range of remarkable functions, from the self-assembly of every organism on Earth, to the ability to recognise and fight pathogens, to creating intelligence,…
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Systems Biology: Where Computer Science, Engineering, and Biology Meet
Ernest Fraenkel, associate professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses how the algorithms developed at Microsoft Research have potential impact on biology, specifically investigations into how genetic mutations can cause disease.…
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Health Care Decisions in the Information Age
Benjamin Handel of UC Berkley focuses on how individuals interact with the medical care sector to make important decisions. This involves using the information available and the incentives they face. The incentives can be financial…
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Advancing the State of the Art: 20th Anniversary and Beyond
At Microsoft Research, we are celebrating over 20 years of turning ideas into products that continuously improve the way people interact with technology. We advance the state of the art in computer science through exploration…
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Mining Big Data to Solve Monumental Problems
With the explosion of data collection that is outpacing Moore’s Law, Microsoft Research is developing and applying algorithms to massive amounts of data to help understand the genetic causes of major diseases, aging, as well…
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Adjusting Childhood Pneumonia Vaccination Periods May Save Lives in Nepal
Learn how technology that helps manage data from clinical trials is facilitating the implementation of a clinical trial investigating a method to reduce childhood mortality caused by pneumonia in Nepal.
