Folding: Helping finding disease.

[kyokushin4life]

I have read about this a while ago, some of you may be interested in helping out.

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

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.

Download: Download Folding@Home

[ksan]

Its like the, SETI @ Home project
SETI@home

Osu

[Kyokugen]

I think I know SETI,,it is organization in science and the people they gather is very2 genius,,Is it true??

[Satori]

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (aliens). You might be thinking of mensa, though the guys at SETI are pretty clever

[Kyokugen]

Yes that's what I've heard about searching ET, but honestly I never think about mensa(anyway I don't really understand about mensa)~~