What Is Folding?

Folding@Home is a world wide distributed computing project initiated by the University Of Stanford. This project takes on the task of simulating how proteins fold and misfold within the human body. This is extremely important for solving the mysteries of diseases and illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

In layman’s terms, you essentially have one gigantic super computer, made up of personal computers like yours and mine. This “super-computer” is  doing a vast amount of calculations and simulations, all for the betterment of medical research.

If you wish to join, click on the link above, download a folding@home client, and get folding!

The version 7 client is the easiest client to setup, just install and run! Click here to download!

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