Folding@home – Possible new Alzeimers Drug
by Craig Mayhew on Dec.21, 2008, under News
Folding@home announced Thursday (18th December 2008) that they are “very excited that it looks like we may have multiple small molecules which appear to inhibit toxicity of Abeta, the protein which is the toxic element in Alzheimer’s Disease”. In English that means they may have found molecules that help prevent damage caused in Alzheimer’s disease.
Although they will have to jump several more hurdles before this can be used in a real world drug, this is a major step for Folding@home. They are also working on applying these techniques to other projects, “we have pilot projects for Huntington’s Disease underway”.
The direct link to post is below so you can read it directly from them:
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/12/new-fah-results-on-possible-new-alzheimers-drug-presented.html
Keep up the folding simulations everyone!!!
