TooBoku Posted November 22, 2008 Posted November 22, 2008 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. What have we done so far?We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page. Want to learn more?Click on the links on the left for downloads or more information. You can also download our Executive Summary, which is a PDF suitable for distribution. Also, you can learn more by watching recent seminars (Stanford BMI ; Xerox PARC). One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University. [Text taken from http://folding.stanford.edu/]------------------------------------------------------------------------New team Bellazon.com with number 154339 has been founded by TooBoku(The team page will link to homepage at http://www.bellazon.com/main/topic18429/co...es:folding_home and link to a logo graphic at http://www.bellazon.com/main/banners/model4uy2.jpg Quote
TooBoku Posted March 24, 2009 Author Posted March 24, 2009 Boo... I think I'm gonna run another machine... I'm the only one folding Quote
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