Poll
Have you ever met anyone else with Dejerine-Sottas?
| Yes, in person |  57.6% |
| No |  35.7% |
| Yes, online |  6.7% |
Total votes: 283
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Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
To join Team Dejerine on Folding@Home, download a client, run the installer, and enter team number 38572 in the configuration panel (on graphical clients) or enter the team number at the first time you run the client (for text console versions).
Team Dejerine is currently ranked #3121 of 39829 teams! Congratulations to all members for an impressive showing.