is there a chance that folding@home wont cure diseases

i dont wanna waste all the time using this for them to say sorry folding@home cant sure cancer and it never will. i dont understand any of the talk ot the site pf what they have done so far i think they are making them words upd_ano

Where did it ever say folding WILL cure cancer. lol I laugh at people who think that this is a miracle program that will solve the meaning of life :P It will help to go through all that information so that they MAY find the cure, but nowhere does it say it will... Its good that you are running it and I dont think that you are wasting time by doing so, how many people actually run it on their time and watch the dots on the globe? I think more people run it at work and when their ps3 is not in use, so in reality no one is wasting their time...

No good and no good...
They have X calculations that they need to do. Each of these may help or they may not help, and when they are calculated, we know if they was any help or not.
The thing is, once they are calculated, it´s no need to recalculate them, so they don´t need to waste any time to calculate them.

So it is helping but nothing says that it will help them...

Stanford University is just going to take the folding results and toss them out the window...*ends sarcasm*dbzfreak

They are using the power of the Cell to hack pornosites passwords instead of finding a cure for cancer :P

[QUOTE="dbzfreak"]Stanford University is just going to take the folding results and toss them out the window...*ends sarcasm*Foppe_

They are using the power of the Cell to hack pornosites passwords instead of finding a cure for cancer :P

i dont wanna waste all the time using this for them to say sorry folding@home cant sure cancer and it never will. i dont understand any of the talk ot the site pf what they have done so far i think they are making them words upd_ano

we(the human race) may never cure cancer. but I can tell you one thing, we will never have a chance if we don't try.

[QUOTE="d_ano"]i dont wanna waste all the time using this for them to say sorry folding@home cant sure cancer and it never will. i dont understand any of the talk ot the site pf what they have done so far i think they are making them words upeclipsed4utoo

we(the human race) may never cure cancer. but I can tell you one thing, we will never have a chance if we don't try.

That is deep.

i dont wanna waste all the time using this for them to say sorry folding@home cant sure cancer and it never will. i dont understand any of the talk ot the site pf what they have done so far i think they are making them words upd_ano

You do know what the purpose of folding is right? Well you're literally "folding" proteins into their native state based on a series of algorithms. By deducing the structure of a protein we can infer its function. So the more protein structures we uncover the more we will know about their function.