Monday, February 2, 2009

Folding@home grid description

For our service learning project we are running Folding@home which looks at how protein folding or misfolding leads to related diseases. Diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes are all caused by proteins that do not fold correctly. Folding@home is looking to find the exact causes and ways to cure these diseases based on the way that the related proteins fold.
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  1. Mindy WalkerFebruary 4, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    That's better! You will now need to decide on a specific disease ASAP and post some background information about it. You will then need to generate a Darwin Day project based on this disease and how it relates to evolution, and you will need to look into lining up an interviewee.
    Good job.
    Dr. Walker

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