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Scientists discover how bacteria use noise to survive stress
Mutations in the genome of an organism give rise to variations in its form and function—its phenotype. However, phenotypic variations can also arise in other ways. The random collisions of molecules constituting an organism—including its DNA and the proteins that…
Scientists use machine learning to predict DNA binding rates from sequence
By Microsoft Research Lab - Cambridge and Department of Bioengineering, Rice University The binding of DNA strands by Watson-Crick base pairing is a fundamental process in biotechnology, which is used around the world for reading and writing DNA sequences and…
Researchers build nanoscale computational circuit boards with DNA
By Microsoft Research Human-engineered systems, from ancient irrigation networks to modern semiconductor circuitry, rely on spatial organization to guide the flow of materials and information. Living cells also use spatial organization to control and accelerate the transmission of molecular signals,…
In the news | Nature Nanotechnology
A spatially localized architecture for fast and modular DNA computing
Fast and scalable molecular logic circuits can be created through the spatial organization of DNA hairpins on DNA origami scaffolds.
In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft’s ‘Biological Computing’ Lab Aims To Fight Diseases By Reprogramming Cells
Microsoft says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers that could someday be programmed—and even reprogrammed—to treat diseases like cancer.
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer
Although individual projects vary widely, Microsoft's overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches: one is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems, and the other is more data-driven.
In the news | Forbes
Future Tech: Seventeen Microsoft Researchers On The Technology of 2017 And 2027
The researcher's ideas about future technology in 2017 and 2027 make for interesting reading and the world will be a better and more interesting place if half of what they envision comes to pass.
In the news | Womanthology
Banishing imposter syndrome by driving up female representation in maths
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane is a specialist in mathematical…
In the news | Engineering and Technology
Turing’s morphogenesis theory drives research into self-configuring systems
Today Turing's idea has become an important starting point for thinking about systems that build themselves from a basic set of parts.