The Microsoft scientists are developing molecular computers which will spot cancer cells, like these breast cancer ones, and destroy them Getty ImagesMicrosoft has pledged to beat cancer within the next ten years by using computer science rather than medical research. At labs around the world teams of scientists, engineers and programmers hope to solve what decades of traditional research has been unable to crack. As their colleagues develop the latest smartphones, a “small army” of experts will work to end the disease that is expected to kill 12 million people a year by 2030 — by using algorithms and computers. Researchers working for the company’s biological computation unit in Cambridge are proving that medicine and computers could go hand in hand.…

Source: The Times September 20, 2016 16:07 UTC