Just taking some time to let people know there is an amazing way that you can contribute to finding the cure for protein related disease - “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.” 

ITS REALLY SIMPLE PEOPLE

Simply visit http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download and follow the downloads that are recommended and run it in the background. All it does is use SPARE  aka EXTRA CPU power that your not using anyways. This software is going to do scientific calculations and send them to the university. They have made great strides to finding out why and how proteins miss-fold and soon enough there will be cures for these diseases BUT its not going to happen unless YOU make it. 

Check it out and make sure to right click and check out the configures tab so you can setup a name and pick a team (i’m on team 32) – points are awarded for helping the project and some teams have prizes and fun stuff. 

http://folding.stanford.edu/ !