Folding@home™ is a distributed computing project at Stanford University which aims at researching protein folding and misfolding to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease. Some of the diseases that this research covers are Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and many forms of cancer and many many others.
Via Information Week – Sony Entertainment in offering an environment for distributed computing applications through PlayStation 3 and more than one million PlayStation 3 users are particpating in it.
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