Microsoft Health Futures

May 3, 2022

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Microsoft have launched a new collaboration that aims to help life science researchers and clinicians with the next generation of robust analytical methods and tools that are highly scalable, easily automated, and…

February 10, 2021

As computational science and data science are becoming closer than ever, a deal with Microsoft could see Verily and Broad Institute’s open-source cloud platform hit new users.

November 24, 2020

Fear and panic are central impediments to competent decision-making during a crisis. As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations rise around the country, creating an atmosphere of crisis, political leaders are reaching for last spring’s lockdown playbooks. Their grave tone conveys an…

May 30, 2019

In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing dozens of diseases at once, and as part of the agreement, pledged to invest an undisclosed amount in the company. Adaptive filed…

October 9, 2018

Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people, the daily journey is more than just a commute: It is part of a years-long project to create a completely…

March 23, 2016

Sleep apnea and smartphone interfaces don’t immediately sound related but as Shyam Gollakota, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and his fellow researchers discovered, the technology used to track the former can mitigate some problems with the…

June 30, 2015

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series. In this edition, Desney Tan, Microsoft principal researcher, and Amish Patel, director of experiences and design for the Personal Devices Group at Microsoft, talk about wearable technology (such…

April 24, 2013

Rick Rashid has a lot on his plate. As the chief research officer at Microsoft Research, the division he founded in 1991, Rashid is charged with overseeing some of Microsoft’s most daring and diverse projects. His vast network of researchers…

February 15, 2012

Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.