Microsoft's weirdest idea ever? Altered parasites to fight disease

Microsoft's weirdest idea ever? Altered parasites to fight disease:

"We've seen unusual patent applications from Microsoft before, but this one takes things to a whole new level. Under the title of 'Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease,' it describes 'systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, logging, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a controlled parasite.'

Microsoft isn't commenting, but it's pretty clearly an example of the broad interests (some might say loose focus) of the company's research unit, not an example of the company's actual product plans.

Filed in July 2009 and made public earlier this month, the patent application reads like something out of science fiction" --

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Story and graphic By Todd Bishop
Techflash Microsoft Blog