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• Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine

  A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which protein strands curl and twist into three-dimensional shapes – key for biological mysteries Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:22 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer games, Protein folding

• Japanese Mushroom Leads To Breakthrough In Protein Research

  Using an enzyme of the Japanese mushroom Grifola frondosa (Maitake or dancing mushroom), proteins can be identified without knowing the organism's genetic composition. This advance simplifies the study of proteins lying at the root of such diseases Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:44 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cancer, Diabetes, Protein folding

• Protein Folding on the PlayStation 3 Gets Off to a Flying Start

  More than 40,000 PlayStation 3 users have joined Stanford's Folding@home project, which breaks up tough protein simulations and distributes the pieces to thousands of far flung computers. The purpose is to be able to do simulations of bigger clu... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:32 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Protein folding, Distributed computing, Folding@home

• Comprehensive model is first to map protein folding at atomic level

  Scientists at Harvard University have developed a computer model that can fully map and predict protein folding for some 10 microseconds -- about as long as some proteins take to assume their biologically stable configuration, and at least a thousand... Read more
  Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Proteins, Protein folding, Protein mapping