Help cure cancer (for free)

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16th May 2008, 05:00pm
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by Beelzebub666
Great Britain
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 379

Plus Parkinson's, Alzheimers, CJD, ALS, Huntington's (that's the one the extremely hot chick on House might have) and many more.  They're all diseases related to protein folding, which is being studied at Stanford Uni Medical centre with the help of computers around the world.  Turns out proteins fold in quite a complicated way, which needs a lot of computer time to simulate.  Or a lot of computers.

 This is a simple download that uses the idle cycles on your comp to help in medical research, only the idle cycles so it won't slow you down.  You may have heard of similar software in use for prime number searching.

 

Find out more here:

http://folding.stanford.edu/


30th October 2008, 12:51am
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by exigentsky
CA United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 387

Good idea, thanks.

 

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