I mentioned this in the prior forums, but its worth mentioning here. One of the worst scenarios in life is to see a loved one suffer from a disease that is beyond the capability of science. Help speed research of treatments by sparing some extra processing power from your PC.
Your PC has saved Vanadiel many times, let it help save the world also.
For the record, I currently have 84 completed Work Units.
http://folding.stanford.edu/ wrote:
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
Download @ http://folding.stanford.edu/
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