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Folding@home

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Understand how proteins can fold incorrectly to cause disease.

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Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.

The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of the numbers.

As seen in Chapter 5 of Citizen Science by Caren Cooper.

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Minimum Age: 13

Languages: English

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