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[QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"] You fail at trolling, fool. Folding@Home involves simulating the folding of proteins and enzymes. Not curing cancer.Locutus_Picard
Cancer also deals with proteins.Read http://folding.stanford.edu/
Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
Where did I say ; ''Cancer doesn't involve proteins.''? I said they're researching protein folding, they're not actively working on a cure for cancer.What does the mission statement say?
Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
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.
What is protein folding?
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
Researching protein folding leads to solving the cancer problem. To fix something one must find the cause i.e. this is like running a debugger to trace the problem.
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