| Why not donate unused computer cycles to Stanford University in it's fight against Cancer and other illness. How it works: you install a small program (there are various ones for older and for newer core 2 etc.) it then downloads a work order then disconnects from the net and processes that work using your while it is idle or just using a minimum amount of processes when finished it connects to the internet and sends the results and pick up more work. | |
| To join the Folding@home public distributed computing effort, simply click on the download link to the right. Use the team information down below and join SimianSupport.com's folding team and compete with other members of the team. |  |
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Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. 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. What is protein folding? 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.
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