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Old 01-17-2005, 11:21 PM   #1
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CRASH Why We Run Folding@Home
Noticed this at the EM-DC.com site. This latest news update from the Stanford F@H site just reinforces why we all support this project.

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1/15/2005 First results from Folding@Home cancer project published. We have been studying the p53 tumor surpressor and our first results on p53 have recently been published. To our knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed results from a distributed computing project related to cancer. Thanks to the continued support of FAH donors, this is will be just the first of many cancer related works that will come from FAH.

The nature of our results can best be described in our paper. However, here's a brief summary of our results. Roughly half of all known cancers result from mutations in p53. Our first work in the cancer area examines the tetramerization domain of p53. We predict how p53 folds and in doing so, we can predict which amino acid mutations would be relevant. When compared with experiments, our predictions have appeared to agree with experiment and give a new interpretation to existing data.
With meaningful results published from the work being done, hopefully you'll see the benefits of running Folding@Home on your computers, as well. Check the Distributed Computing Forum or the link in my signature for more details. Happy Folding!
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Old 01-18-2005, 07:23 AM   #2
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That's absolutely fantastic Kov-Ice!

It's great to hear that progress is being made and hopefully this will push more people to start folding.

Thanks for the good news,
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wicked! now we know that all this isn't for nothing!! we are really doing something!!! thats great!
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Great news, and I am sure that there will be many more discoveries to come. Thanks for the news Kov-Ice, and thanks to everyone helping our team, and F@H in general.
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That is super news... Feels pretty cool that we are all a part of this! Keep foldin'!

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Thanks for the info Kov-Ice! It's nice to see that all of us who are Folding are beginning to make a difference. Hopefully, we will see more of these articles in the future.


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