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 35yrs • M •
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Help Cure diseases
http://folding.stanford.edu

just download the program and install it. It's not a virus and it doesn't slow your computer down any noticable amount. The program helps researchers design better drugs.
It might save your life one day.
U can read more on the website.

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 53yrs • M •
A CTL of 1 means that I R Me is a contributing member of Captain Cynic.
quite an ingenius way to find computing resources for such a huge task.
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/proteinfolding/
sounds legit -Scientists using thousands or even millions of pc's to compute some biological stuff that sounds really complicated.....

"Dr. Vijay Pande, a professor of chemistry and structural biology at Stanford, saw the potential for thousands of desktop computers to calculate tiny portions of a folding sequence. He wrote algorithms for Mac, Windows and Linux computers, and worked with distributed-computing entrepreneur Adam Beberg to integrate his code into an application dubbed Folding@home."
-Folding Proteins at Home
By Barbara Gibson


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