Hi all David Baker has asked for more computing power on Ralph@home (Rosetta@home alpha testing) for the next couple of weeks. See his latest post in the Rosetta@home journal. I therefore re-attached to Ralph and increased my resource share there. I also created a betterhumans.com team on Ralph. Feel free to join me there... __ Hoelder1in 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research News: Building Enzymes from Scratch  Have a look at the above article describing the latest research on enzyme design by Baker lab and collaborators.  The article specifically mentions the help from the 190,000 strong Rosetta@home community which made this research possible! This is another proof ...

Technology Review: Enzymes built from scratch: Baker lab engineers new catalysts! Check out the above Technology Review article describing the recent successes of the Baker lab with engineering novel enzymes that has just been published in the journal Science - in my previous post I had erroneously assumed that this new research would be ...

Baker lab enzyme engineering breaktrough reported in Nature! Have a look at this news item on the Nature News Web site, reporting on the first ever successful design of working enzymes, catalyzing novel chemical reactions, by David Baker's group (the actual Nature journal article will only be available by subscripton). Also, the ...

Betterhumans member and Rosetta@home team mate EmbraceUnity has written an insightful piece on decentralization, open source, p2p, and  distributed computing which specifically mentions protein folding and Rosetta@home. Go to the IEET website and check it out! And, WOW, Jons, our new Rosetta@home team member now contributes more than half of ...

gnawing at the bars of our biological cage I borrowed this from Nick Bostrom's Letter from Utopia which I think beautifully expresses the transhumanist world view as I see it. It has been quite some time since I last posted in this thread, one of the reasons being that it also has been somewhat quiet over at Rosetta@home and in David ...

Rosetta@home project. Help fight disease through Boinc shared computing - simulating protein folding.

Check out this interesting new development at Rosetta@home:  As of last week the Rosetta@home software which participants run on their computers also includes the functionality to fold and determine the 3D structure of RNA, in addition to its protein folding and design capabilities. Here is some background info on RNA posted by ...

It's not just a lame John Mayer song. It's what so many of us have been doing for far too long. We pour over the newest science and technology magazines. We visit tons of future-oriented sites (or better yet, subscribe to their RSS feeds). We keep an ear to the wind, straining to hear any mention of advances in nanotechnology, AI, VR, renewable ...

...some more updates and progress reports that David Baker posted in the Rosetta@home forum over the weekend - thought I copy them over here in case you missed any of this: HIV vaccine design: so far 12 vaccine designs have passed the first tests: we can make them in large quantities, and they interact tightly with antibodies known ...