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And You Just Couldn't Delete Those "V1agra" E-mails Fast Enough

Oct 23, 2007

At the Microarray Blog today, Paul Albin has a post about how an anti-spam algorithm developed at IBM is now being put through the paces to see if it can help detect and block rapidly evolving mutations in HIV. In a partnership fostered by Bill Gates, AIDS researcher David Heckerman has teamed up with the anti-spam group at Microsoft Research in an effort to help "find drugs for HIV," according to Albin. The post links out to a video from Microsoft detailing the research.

While the work sounds really interesting, GTO just hopes that any drugs coming out of the work are more effective at combating HIV than the typical Microsoft product is at combating spam.

 

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