Microsoft is teaming up with a $5 billion Seattle biotech to unravel the mystery of how the immune system responds to the coronavirus, and it could lead to new treatments and tests
that turn purple and swollen. Some patients have mild symptoms, and others get severely ill.
The duo are hoping that better understanding the T-cell response in humans could be help understand and fight the virus. Microsoft will help crunch the massive amount of collected data using its machine learning capabilities and Azure cloud platform. T cells are the body's first response to a foreign invader in the body. Some T cells will kill infected cells and fight the virus, and others help pump out antibodies and coordinate the body's attack.
Lance Baldo, the chief medical officer of Adaptive, said he hopes the findings could help build better diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines for COVID-19."What we're developing is a third pillar of diagnostics, which is looking specifically at the T cells," Baldo said in an interview.
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