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Written by Brian Williams
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
No, you don't have to give away your computer.
You can even run it on your PS3.By downloading a piece of software and running it on your machine, you can join Folding@home, a distributed computing project led by Stanford University that is studying protein folding, the process that your body performs to create proteins to perform its biological functions.
According to the project's Web site, "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." The software takes up very little hard disk space and very little memory while running. You can even run it on your PS3.
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Brian Williams, a TheSequitur.com senior editor and systems director, studies sociology at Morehead State University.
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