MS Helping With HIV Vaccine

Nic · Feb 24, 2005

Microsoft Research has pioneered promising new ways to combat one of humankind's most deadly viruses with advanced software typically used to analyze large computer databases and complex digital images, or to separate spam from legitimate e-mail. Today at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Microsoft Research will show how medical researchers can use machine-learning, data-mining and other software techniques to comb through millions of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to find the genetic patterns necessary to train a patient's immune system to fight the virus. The first of these vaccine designs are currently undergoing laboratory testing.
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-23HIVVaccinePR.asp

Pretty smart move by m$ they get good publicity and could end up making even MORE money.

syngod · Feb 24, 2005

This way the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation can pump it back into themselves, since HIV research is one of their biggest donation categories.

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