Using Spam Blockers To Target HIV, Too September 29, 2007
Posted by rahul in Medicine.Tags: AIDS, Computing, diseases, HIV, Medicine 2.0, Microsoft, Research, Spam
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A Microsoft researcher and his team make a surprising new assault on the AIDS epidemic
Cut-rate painkillers! Unclaimed riches in Nigeria!! Most of us quickly identify such e-mail messages as spam. But how would you teach that skill to a machine? David Heckerman needed to know. Early this decade, Heckerman was leading a spam-blocking team at Microsoft Research. To build their tool, team members meticulously mapped out thousands of signals that a message might be junk. An e-mail featuring “Viagra,” for example, was a good bet to be spam–but things got complicated in a hurry.
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Future of Imaging September 24, 2007
Posted by rahul in Medicine.Tags: Imaging, Inflammation, Medicine 2.0, Molecular Medicine
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Dr Robin Choudhury and colleagues at the University of Oxford have developed a marker that attaches itself to particular molecules involved in inflammation. As a result, these molecules ‘light up’ on MRI scans.
The ‘VCAM-1’ molecule plays a key role in inflammation, which contributes to many diseases, including multiple sclerosis, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and atherosclerosis (a hardening and narrowing of the arteries which can lead to heart attack and stroke),
This study was published in September 24th Issue of Nature Medicine Journal.
