Help cure diseases: fold a protein

Because I am a geek, distributed computing is cool to me. If finding signals from space through SETI@Home was never your thing, perhaps curing Alzheimer's or Parkinson's is.

Head on over to Folding@Home and help really smart brainiacs figure out what makes proteins go wrong and cause diseases. If you'd like to join the House 8 Network team, the team number is 11615. (I'd link to the stats page, but it looks like the protein folders are too busy folding proteins to maintain their web server.)

See also: Adam Beberg's Distributed Computing Design Manifesto.

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via boing boing