Currently, it is estimated that as many as 5.2 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease. This number is expected to grow over the next 50 years as our population ages.

Does anyone here use the spare power of their computers to help cure disease?

Posted: April 21st, 2009 | Author: Dr Alz | Filed under: Other - Diseases | Tags: , , |
Just curious if anyone here does this. It’s a very large global community that uses the spare power of their computers to help find cures for cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons, etc. It is done through Stanford University. Personaly I think it’s a worthwhile cause.

http://folding.stanford.edu/
I think the chances of success are higher for this than SETI, also more worthwhile. I fold for team 11108, MaximumPC. The stats can be found at this link. It adds a bid of a sense of accomplishment and gives a friendly competativeness to it.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=

4 Comments on “Does anyone here use the spare power of their computers to help cure disease?”

  1. 1 bueko said at 5:50 am on April 24th, 2009:

    Thats pretty cool, I use my computer to search for Alien life :)

  2. 2 Dane said at 5:14 pm on April 27th, 2009:

    I am a bit paranoid about strangers accessing my computer, regardless of the circumstances.

  3. 3 Cybeq said at 3:58 am on April 28th, 2009:

    I am going on record and making this bold statement of pessimism and lack of faith in the medical community. “No cure for any major disease will ever be found.” Thus it has been declared.

  4. 4 Angel M said at 2:25 am on May 1st, 2009:

    Sounds very worthwhile to me. I have used the seti program and the NASA weather one till my hardrive went boom, but this makes sense. I will look into it further. Thank you for sharing we can all decide to use it or not ,a free choice to the worry worts. Thanks again

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