Benefits from Folding?

[A10Pilot3]

Just curious, (I'm folding, so I'm not dissing it) how much has F@H accomplished? Have there been any major breakthroughs directly because of it?

[DMB2000uk]

We get points is what F@H accomplishes

Points means prizes! (lol, does anyone not from the UK get that?)

WHAT HAVE WE DONE SO FAR AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Folding@Home has been a success. We have folded several small, fast folding proteins, with experimental validation of our method. We are now working to further develop our method, and to apply it to more complex and interesting proteins and protein folding and misfolding questions.

Since then, Folding@Home has studied more complex proteins, reporting on the folding of many proteins on the microsecond timescale, including BBA5, the villin headpiece, Trp Cage, among others.

More recently, we have been putting a great deal of effort into studying proteins relevant for diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Hunntington's, and Osteogenesis Imperfecta.

You can learn more about our results, on our Results Page and you can see specific , peer-reviewed scientific achievements on our Papers Page.

Awards won by the folding inventor guys: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Awards

Papers written from the folding research: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

[Apoptosis]

I have a degree in Biology and have done my fair share of research and when it comes to things like this 99.9% of the time you're not going to find anything significant. If you don't try to find anything though you'll never have that medical breakthrough though.

[A10Pilot3]

I have a degree in Biology and have done my fair share of research and when it comes to things like this 99.9% of the time you're not going to find anything significant. If you don't try to find anything though you'll never have that medical breakthrough though.

I agree! I was just wondering if anyone knew of any breakthroughs that HAVE happened so far, because of F@H. You never hear about it in the news (atleast I haven't).