Foldinghome


 * Term:** Folding@Home


 * What is Folding@Home? **

Folding@home is really the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Folding@home is a distributed computing project based at the world-renowned Stanford University in the USA and is used by research scientists to run medical simulations in order to work out how and why proteins (one of the building blocks of life) fold. Folding is the medical term for the process proteins undergo when they interact with each other. Many diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Mad Cow Disease (BSE), are caused in part by proteins misfolding.

What happens if proteins don't fold correctly? Diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to result from protein misfolding. When proteins misfold, they can clump together ("aggregate"). These clumps can often gather in the brain, where they are believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer's disease. . media type="youtube" key="EZ1XuOgknuE" height="360" width="640"

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Which diseases or biomedical problems are you currently studying?

- Alzheimer's Disease (AD)

- Huntington's Disease (HD)

- Cancer and P53

- Chagas Disease

- Malaria

- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)

- Diabetes

- Antibiotics

- Parkinson's Disease (PD) - Viral diseases

//**__ Related Terminology: __**// Rosetta@home SuperComputing BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) FoldIt Charity Engine Progress Thru Processrs

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[|http://folding.stanford.edu/]


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