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Meh.
a company by micro$oft could do better than that. $570,000/6 ($95,000 each) are hardly enough to fund even a PhD studentship...
Microsoft Goes Bio
By Eli Kintisch
ScienceNOW Daily News
13 March 2007
Microsoft is adding synthetic biology to its universe. Today, the software giant announced $570,000 in grants to six teams of academic researchers exploring new ways to meld biology with computer science, math, and engineering.
"The reason we're in this area is there is a lot of potential," said Microsoft official Simon Mercer earlier this year in an interview with Science. "We may never be a biotech company, but ... we want to see growth of a set of tools that support synthetic biology activities." Synthetic biology uses mathematical modeling and other computational tools to devise new biological functions.
Grantees include researchers from schools such as the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and Harvard University. The scientists are involved in building the next generation of cloning methods and creating computer code to help them fold DNA into more complex shapes.
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By Eli Kintisch
ScienceNOW Daily News
13 March 2007
Microsoft is adding synthetic biology to its universe. Today, the software giant announced $570,000 in grants to six teams of academic researchers exploring new ways to meld biology with computer science, math, and engineering.
"The reason we're in this area is there is a lot of potential," said Microsoft official Simon Mercer earlier this year in an interview with Science. "We may never be a biotech company, but ... we want to see growth of a set of tools that support synthetic biology activities." Synthetic biology uses mathematical modeling and other computational tools to devise new biological functions.
Grantees include researchers from schools such as the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and Harvard University. The scientists are involved in building the next generation of cloning methods and creating computer code to help them fold DNA into more complex shapes.
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