The World Community Grid has just added a new project.
World Community Grid and researchers supported by Decrypthon, a partnership between AFM (French Muscular Dystrophy Association), CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and IBM are investigating protein-protein interactions for 40,000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases. The database of information produced will help researchers design molecules to inhibit or enhance binding of particular macromolecules, hopefully leading to better treatments for muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases.
Muscular Dystrophy is a very personal illness to me since I have a brother who is suffering severely from MDA.
You can read about the project
here.
If any of you know someone who suffers from MDA, here is a chance to actually do something that will help. We are making amazing progress against this scourge and others, and this is something we can all do that costs nothing, requires minimal effort and that will hasten the day when MDA like polio is but a memory.
If any of you have considered joining Team EvC but have held back for some reason, please, look at this project and if you can join us, can help, download the BOINC or UD agents.
If you have ANY questions, please ask.
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