Do you know someone with a mind-afflicting disease? A body-wrecking Cancer? Feel powerless to help them? Here's your chance...
Since October 2000, Stanford University has an application that you can partake in called Folding@Home. Over one million CPUs throughout the world have participated in this distributed computing project. The goal of this project is to research protein folding and misfolding to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease. See F@H's Executive Summary, in PDF, here.
Targeted diseases include (but are not limited to) such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
It's a small application that runs in the background of your computer (XP/Vista/Linux/MacOSX) or as a stand alone program on your home console, the Playstation 3.
I've started a Team for the members of Allakhazam called Allakhazam's Magical Research Realm (TEAM# 85020). Team Statistics: Please allow 3 to 24 hours to populate.
Simply download Folding@Home and join the team: To join, just put the team's number in the configuration panel (on graphical clients) or enter the team number at the first time you run the client (for text console versions).
Who knows, the life you help save, could be your own.
If any Admins see it, how wonderful would you be to put this on the News Page? Doesn't hurt anyone to support research.
Edited, Aug 28th 2007 10:41am by Kaelesh
Edited, Aug 28th 2007 11:07am by Kaelesh
