Help Cure Alzheimers.... while you sleep?

[Cleoriff]

I am all for medical innovation as you know....but I read this article with absolute amazement...

The headline is.......

Folding@Home Beta arrives for Sony smartphones, help cure Alzheimer’s while you sleep

(at first I thought it was a wind up)

I do not profess any great technological knowledge of how it may work... but stand in awe of those scientists who are convinced it will....

Sony has a long standing partnership with the Folding@Home research project and has just released a Beta version of Folding@Home for smartphones, following successful trials back in 2012.

http://www.androidauthority.com/folding-home-beta-sony-xperia-579844/

Read it and be amazed. If this helps people suffering with Alzheimers...an absolutely terrible degenerative disease of the brain...then it really does show how medical innovations can be used in conjunction with other technology.

[viridis]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.androidapp.gridcomputing

[Cleoriff]

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@viridis wrote:
It was set up by the lab at stanford and uses user donated personal computers, playstation 3's and now smartphones.
All while sitting in the users home idly doing work together.

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So...all I can say to that is WOW....and thanks for the app link.

Isn't medical research linked to computer  technology damn wonderful.??

One more question for the morning maybe...Could anyone download the app to do their bit to help this research @viridis ?

[viridis]

I believe atm it's just Xperias that have access to the app with a view to possible full android release later on.
Last night's run lasted 4hrs and it tells me the modules my phone was working on was breast cancer and her2 kinase.

[Cleoriff]

Very complicated ...I do know that HER2kinase is an enzyme...which if it mutates can cause breast cancers..

Anyway thanks for that update. I will just leave it as a fascinating though complicated subject...

An article of this nature makes you realise just how much we don't know of what goes on in medical research

[viridis]

And I don't know why breast cancer auto corrected to breastfeeding cancer.
If a mod could edit that id be greatful

[Cleoriff]

@viridis  I have asked them to edit it....:smileywink:

[Toby]

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@viridis wrote:

And I don't know why breast cancer auto corrected to breastfeeding cancer.
If a mod could edit that id be greatful

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Done

[Cleoriff]

Thanks @Toby ...and I hope you found it all as fascinating as I did...(once I had the technology side explained of course)

[Beenherebefore]

@viridis ....so this is like a botnet ?

[viridis]

Yes @Beenherebefore
The setup and linking is very much like the botnets used for "other" things lol