Microsoft is aiming to 'solve' cancer using computer science

The company is best known for its computers and phones. But Microsoft is now setting its sights on one of the most important questions in science - how to cure cancer. One of its research labs aims to tackle the disease as if it were a bug in a computer system, with the hopes of being able to make cells into living computers that can'reprogramme' cancer cells within the decade. Microsoft is now setting its sights on one of the most important questions in science - how to cure cancer. The company aims to use a computer code to treat the disease like a computer virus, 'reprogramme' diseased cells.