Central Prosthetics and Orthotics is proud to announce that we, alongside many others, are helping to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You too can help, visit Folding@home to download the software client.

What is Folding@home?
Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics, and to improve on the methods available to do so. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande.

Purpose
Accurate simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases. More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how biological molecules assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. So far, the Folding@home project has successfully simulated folding in the 5-10 microsecond range, which is a far longer simulation than it was previously thought possible to model.

Join the CPO Folding@home team
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