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Proteins are one of the major components that build up the bodies of organisms, they are important, they are perform many function such as enzymes, bodies structural elements and etc as you know it.

In our body, proteins assemble themselves, or “fold”. The process of protein folding is crucial; if proteins fold in place, you should praise ‘hallelujah’ every morning when you wake up. Other wise, when proteins misfold, there’s how famous disease like Mad Cow and etc happen. Consequences of the misfold can be deadly. Knowing how proteins fold is thus important, they might help in solving problems related to proteins folding, included Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and etc. However, in many ways, the process remains mystery.

That’s why scientists are keen to find out how proteins fold in molecular level.

This particular website, Fold@home is aimed to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related disease. It is quite interesting. Fold@home is actually a distributed computing project, they provide software for peoples all over the world to download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. At current, the are working on Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, huntington’s disease, osteogenesis imperfecta and etc.

We might not proteins expert, and we might not being able to understand what are they doing, but we can always take a peep how are those fellow scientists are working.

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