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Post by Bill on Mar 16, 2006 21:25:30 GMT -5
Hello fellow degicankians, please consider joining me in folding@home in the degicank folding team # 49696 Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. 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. folding.stanford.edufolding.stanford.edu/faq.htmNew team degicank with number 49696 has been founded by captaingeek@gmail.com Any client program can contribute to the statistics for this team by putting the number 49696 in the team field
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Post by Bill on Mar 16, 2006 21:27:25 GMT -5
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Post by Joe on Mar 16, 2006 23:10:50 GMT -5
Good idea!
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