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1) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 46798)
Posted 22 Sep 2007 by Old Member
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Is the disease related research terminated or still going on? That question should be covered in the first place. A subpage, with a list of the diseases covered and a short progress message (1 sentence is enough) on the current stage of the research (planned, ongoing, terminated, results published, ...)
This type of progress report encourages many people to keep on supporting the project at WorldCommunityGrid and Einstein.


Just to be explicit, yes, disease-related research is still going on. The summary on the front page is the best source *I* know of right now for what diseases are currently being targeted. But the most important thing is that as Rosetta improves, it will become possible to target all disease in a much more precise way, leading to more effective treatments and fewer side effects, because we're not thrashing around in the dark. In the long run, I think projects like this will revolutionize medicine, but it's important to realize that it will unfold over a period of years and decades -- we're not walking down the hall to inject Rosetta in a sick patient :)


With all due respect the page you site contains this statement:

"The above projects are not currently running on BOINC because we don't yet have an efficient queuing system which lets people submit jobs easily, but look for them soon! Also, rest assured that the structure prediction calculations currently running on your computers will have direct bearing on treating disease. There is a three-fold explanation for this direct relationship between structure prediction and disease treatment:....."

It then goes describe what to me sounds like drug research. Doesn't Pfizer make enough money to do its own research? So my question is this, are we doing drug research, disease research or some combination? I'm no scientist so perhaps I don't comprehend the difference.

I'm new to this project so perhaps I have misunderstood.






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