I know most probably don't care about cancer but it's near and dear to me. Whether it be cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.. we are ALL susceptible to these disgusting diseases/cancers. NOW, what if you could help in the cure with your computer?
So yesterday why browsing online I came across something called CureCoin. This was created by some developers at Stanford School of Medicine! Basically they used the shared resources of computers to help process proteins. It's a new term for me, but something called folding.
What is FOLDING you ask? Well, here is the answer...
Proteins are biology's workhorses- its "nanomachines." Proteins help your body break down food into energy, regulate your moods, and fight disease. Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." While protein folding is critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology much of the process remains a mystery.
When proteins do not fold correctly (misfolding), there can be serious health consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, AIDS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers.
If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs and therapies to combat these illnesses.
So what Stanford is doing is state of the art and something that you can be apart of now and be rewarded with!
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of the numbers.
In just 5 minutes ...
Add your computer to over 108,000 others around the world outputting 98,000 teraflops of computing power to form the world's largest distributed supercomputer.
(HOW COOL IS THAT!) and you never know if it will help someone or maybe even you.
Look, I get it... some of you are young and probably don't care. Some of you maybe going through cancer or have close family that has it or have passed, sadly... This is a great way to help them out! And get rewarded with CureCoin's..
I thought I would put it out there because it's a great damn cause! Hopefully you will up my post and share it. We need as many people as possible throwing a little processing power in there!
Have a great Tuesday!
